On that day, their little boy Eric seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if Eric understood what was going on.

那天，他们的小儿子埃里克看起来很平静，最后一次抚摸那只老狗，我怀疑埃里克明白发生了什么。

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This little boy was so excited to know there was somebody else who understood the things he was wondering about.

当知道有人能够理解他很好奇的那些事物时，小男孩很是激动。

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It was on seeing that boy that I understood, for the first time, my situation.

只有当见到了这个男孩的时候，我才头一回懂得了我的处境。

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The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

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As there are no "guilty" or "not guilty" verdicts in her California juvenile court, Leonard instead found it "true" that the boy had committed murder and understood his actions were wrong.

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