Well,you're in some battle,or rather, your troop is in some battle, and people are being killed left and right.

比如你在战场上，或者说你的军队在战场上，周围的人被杀死。

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I will strike them with pestilence and disown them, and I will make of you a nation far more numerous than they!"

我要用瘟疫杀死他们，叫你的后裔成为一个国家，比他们强盛“

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You can kill him. You can certainly kill someone who comes after you, who tries to murder you.

你可以杀了他，你可以理所当然地,杀死一个跟踪你，想谋害你的人。

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The question is would the defeated army- would the winning army kill all the defeated guys who were still on the battlefield at the time?

你问的是战败军,胜利的一方是否会杀死,战败但仍在战场上的敌人

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I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

我是被你杀死的敌人，亲爱的。

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Or one of my favorite examples, you could be sitting in your-- you read this sort of thing in the newspaper periodically-- you could be sitting in your living room when suddenly an airplane crashes into your house, killing you.

或者像我最喜欢用的一个例子那样，你可能坐在你-,你按时读报纸之类的东西-,你可能正坐在你家起居室里,这时突然有架飞机撞进了你家，杀死了你。

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Well,I suppose it doesn't strike me as an implausible thing to say that if everybody in the troop got killed and you would have gotten killed had you been there, but instead,the person you hired to take your place gets killed, then he took your place.

我想可以这么说,如果大家都被杀死，而你若是在战场上也被杀了，但被杀的却是你花钱雇来的人，他就代替了你。

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