All the village flocked to the courthouse the next morning, for this was to be the great day.

第二天早晨，全村的人都涌向法院，因为这一天是个重要的日子。

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In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.

绝望之下，他跑到城里，直奔法院向地方法官报告这起抢劫案。

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But we should be grateful to this Carmarthen courthouse campaign.

但我们应当对喀麦登法院的这一活动心存感激。

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The crowd outside the courthouse watched anxiously as one by one, each with a canvas-covered bed, backed up to a courtroom door and, out of the view of onlookers, deposited handcuffed defendants for a brief appearance before a judge.

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In its densely packed downtown, for instance, the 19th-century courthouse and red-and-white brick Portland Parish Church stand as proud remnants of colonial-era grandeur.

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There is not much to the village now: a few boarded-up houses, a couple of shops, a down-at-heel courthouse.

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The 190-year-old courthouse was earmarked for closure in December 2010 when the government announced that it would shut 93 magistrates' courts.

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