Any luck with that Waylon case? Well, I don't think it was an animalthat killed him.

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Though I knew that I had killed the kitten, my mother's words had made it live again in my mind.

我虽杀了那只猫，可母亲让我对它改变了看法。

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Maybe it's not so much that I have a right not to be killed.

也许并不是在于我有不被杀的权利。

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Well, maybe the answer is there's no particular time at all when I killed him But for all that, it's true that I killed him ? What makes it true that I killed him?

也许答案是,我什么时候杀死他根本没有确切的时间,尽管如此，我杀死他是真的,为什么我杀死他是真的？

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What makes it true that I killed him is that on Monday I shot him and on Wednesday he died from the wound That's what makes it true ? But when did I kill him?

我杀死他是真的是因为,星期一我开枪打了他,而星期三他因伤去世,这就是为什么是真的,但我什么时候杀的他？

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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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