Sometimes a third person was involved, to judge the taker's actions and take money away from them for acting badly; sometimes they weren't.

有些实验中有第三者介入，他会对拿取者的行动进行评判，如果拿取者做得不好，他就会把钱拿走。还有些试验中只有两个受试者。

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He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.

他茫然地走上街头，碰到了吉姆·荷利斯在扮演法官，正在一个儿童法庭上审理一件猫儿咬死小鸟的谋杀案，被害者也在场。

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The judging individual is not acting " on his own", but qua judge.

审判中的个人并非体现自我，而是体现法官这个角色。

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In the States on Tuesday, Mr Higgins said the scheme's lawyers "appeared to be acting as judge and jury".

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Instead of government destroying value by confiscating assets and then try to provide services, government will be reduced to acting as judge and referee in maintaining a level playing field.

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Many who forbid acting as a judge in an infidel country at the same time make it permissible to act as a legislator in said country, in which their job is to legislate by other than that which Allah revealed.

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