[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm reading a book and stumbled upon the sentence 'They were trapped.' Could you help me understand how to express this sentence in Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Italian translation of 'They were trapped' is 'Erano intrappolate'. This sentence is in the past tense, indicating that the subject, 'they', were in a state of being trapped at a specific point in the past."}]