Why did it cause you anguish, when you saw a defenceless animal driven to slaughter?

当你看到动物被带往屠宰场时那种无助的样子，你为什么会感到痛苦呢？

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Because you felt, in your inmost soul, that it is wrong, that it is unjust to kill a defenceless and innocent being!

那是因为你的内心深处感觉到这是错误的，杀害手无寸铁、无辜的动物是多么不义啊！

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Although seemingly defenceless, it is capable of simply flinging itself from its perch, curling up into a ball and bouncing off boulders and down steep slopes to safety.

虽然看上去无法自卫，它却可以从栖息的高位简单的将自己投掷出去，卷成一团在大卵石之间弹来弹去滚下险峻的斜坡抵达安全地带。

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"My judgement is that it would be foolish to leave Britain defenceless against a continuing, and growing, nuclear threat, " he said.

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At Manchester Crown Court, prosecutor Simon Phillips QC said Mr Rigby made a "wicked attack on a defenceless child".

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