Perhaps all you can do is leave them alone for a while to think. Only they can understand their feelings and discern the right way to proceed. Let them know you care, then back off.

你现在应该做的是，让他知道你很关心他，然后默默走开，留些空间给他自己。

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Keep going until you see hardly any detail at all. Then back off some.

到了你几乎看不清细节的时候再往回走点。

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It shows bloody images of fisherman cutting the fins off dead sharks then throwing them back in the water.

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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because someone turned the gas off and turned it back on and then left.

因为有人把瓦斯关了以后，又打开，忘记关上就离开了。

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Watch them run the plates and then back off.

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