YOU SAID:
「 " Why did you try to run away?"」
INTO JAPANESE
「「なぜ逃げようとしたのですか?」」
BACK INTO ENGLISH
"Why were you trying to run away?"
INTO JAPANESE
「なぜ逃げようとしたのですか?」
BACK INTO ENGLISH
"Why were you trying to run away?"
That didn't even make that much sense in English.