He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.

虽说他现在仍然脚踏两只船，但他肯定更愿意带上财宝和海盗们逃之夭夭，因为他从我们这边得到的最大的希望只是不上绞架。

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He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.

他毫无疑问更乐于同海盗们一起满载金银财宝逍遥法外，而他们寄托在我们这边的希望只是免去上绞架而已。

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A lack of profusion in the gratitude or apology department will certainly land anyone in such a situation in the " not very nice" camp from which there is little chance of escape.

若谁没有大量使用感谢或道歉的语汇，便肯定会陷入“ 不太文雅” 的阵营，而且从这种境况中摆脱出来的机会微乎其微。

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The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

ECONOMIST: M.R.D. Foot

The new Peter Weir film, loosely adapted from an unreliable memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, is about a bunch of prisoners who escape from a Siberian labor camp in 1940 and set out on the long trek back to civilization.

NEWYORKER: The Way Back