When Mr. Hoskins first heard about it, he was conflicted.

所以，第一次听说这件事时，霍斯金斯先生感到很矛盾。

" Talent was at the core of a tremendous amount of our conversations, " Mr. Hoskins said.

“人才是我们那次谈话的核心话题，”霍斯金斯先生说。

Mr Hoskins testified in court that Africans do not practise exorcism like this.

霍斯金斯先生在法庭上证明非洲人并不用这样的方式除怪。

Hoskins is appointed manager, with immediate effect.

【effect】霍斯金斯被任命为经理，此任命立即生效。

Mr Hoskins understands this as a benign affliction treated with a potion of plant extracts from a nganga, a traditional healer.

霍斯金斯先生把这认为是一种较为仁慈的折磨，用从 nganga(刚果哺果苏木)中提取的植物药剂治疗，这是一种传统治疗物。

Mr Hoskins recognised that Adam was in fact a human sacrifice (a term the police initially recoiled at) by a Nigerian tribe.

霍斯金斯先生辨认出亚当实际上是一个尼日利亚部族的活人祭品（一个警方最初所不愿提及的术语）。

" It quickly became, 'Hey, we got three locations in that list of 20, we've got a good chance here, '" Mr. Hoskins said.

“之后不久，形势又变成了‘嘿，这个名单上有三个地方机会比较大，’”霍斯金斯说到。

In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, young and newly married, spent six years as a missionary in Bolobo, upriver from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa.

在二十世纪八十年代早期，年轻且新婚不久的理查德·霍斯金斯，在博洛博（地名）做了六年的传教士，该地位于刚果首都，金沙萨市的上游。

In his new book, “The Boy in the River”, Mr Hoskins argues that these atrocities are a perversion of African belief systems and highly unusual.

在他的新书《河里的男孩》中，霍斯金斯先生说这些暴行是对非洲信仰的一种曲解，是极不寻常的。

Mr Hoskins and his wife suffered their own tragedy in Congo; one of their twins was stillborn, the other died before she was two.

在刚果，霍斯金斯夫妇自己也惨遭了不幸；双胞胎中的一个是死胎，而另一个在两岁前死亡。

At Hoskins, he set up a bonus scheme paying workers up to five percent extra and established a pension plan for employees more generous than what the state provided in the early 1910s.

在霍斯金斯，他制定了一项奖金计划，向员工额外支付高达 5% 的工资，并为员工制定了一项比 1910 年代初期国家提供的更慷慨的养老金计划。