"Better for Hook," he cried, "if he had had less ambition!"

“对胡克来说，”他叫道，“要是他的野心小一点就好了！”

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"What if there's nothing left at all?" he cried, lost in some intense existential angst.

“要是什么都没了会怎样？”他大叫起来，迷失在某种强烈的攸关人类存亡的痛苦中。

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"Tell me if you can," cried Pinocchio, as he ran and jumped on his Father's neck.

“快告诉我吧！”皮诺乔叫道，一边跑过去，搂住他父亲的脖子。

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But if any of the children cried, he told The Observer, they would be hit with a rubber pipe or punished with an oily cloth stuffed in their mouths.

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Good people asked the boys if they were lost or urged them to take "their baby brother" home as he cried for his mummy.

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