Because they are children that you could save just as easily as you could save that child in the pond in front of you.

因为你可以拯救这些儿童，正如你可以拯救那个，掉落池塘的小孩一样简单。

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When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.

这种可怜的小把戏，一旦成了人，几乎总要遭受社会秩序这个磨盘的碾压，但是，只要他们还是孩子，个儿小，就可以逃过。

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They are devoted to their children.

他们深爱着自己的孩子。

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For the children at Saint Christine's, the mid-day meal they are served might be their only meal all day.

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Because they are children that you could save just as easily as you could save that child in the pond in front of you.

因为你可以拯救这些儿童,正如你可以拯救那个,掉落池塘的小孩一样简单。

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Now this is interesting because remember the generation has died off, that saw the Exodus and Sinai, right? So these are the children now and they're saying, it was us, every one of us who is here today.

这十分有趣你们还记得已经逝去的那一代以色列人吗，见证了出埃及记的那一代这些人是他们的子孙,而他们说，是我们，我们每一个今天在这里的人。

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They are children, hundreds of thousands of them, growing up in families no longer constrained by nature's original dictate.

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But all 300 of them have one thing in common: they are children of migrant workers who have come to Beijing in search of a better life.

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