因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。

There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence.

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判刑应该更重。

There should have been a heavier sentence.

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他们通过设立法庭对罪犯进行判刑，由此来维护社会和平。

They keep the society peaceful by setting up courts to sentence the criminals to some kinds of punishments.

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And when they were acquitted, only two people who were condemned from those forces, they had joined voluntarily and the others, the malgre-nous were, "In spite of ourselves," Were pardoned.

当他们被无罪释放的时候,那个军队里,只有两个人被判刑,他们是自愿加入的不过其他人,那些"不情愿的","不情愿的人"被赦免了

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