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This dialogue.

> ジュースを零してしまうのだけど
>
> こぼさずに全部欲しい

I'm told the 1st line would be like "I spilled the juice by accident but..."

What I want to ask is if the 2nd line also means "spill" in this case? Or does
it mean like "complain"? I wondered cause the one is in kanji and other's not.

Does the 2nd line mean "I don't want to complain."
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Does the 2 "こぼす" here have different meanings?
I think you answered yourself (=intentionally playing with words).

I guess the real talent of people translating literature is to be able to
recreate the original in the other language even when the original relies on
something that cannot simply be translated...

... not having that talent, we could say:

I wanted to have all the juice, without having to complain about part of it
having been spilled.
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I think it's up to artistic interpretation. We could argue and say that
because it is spelled differently, the writer intends to have two separate
meanings of the word.

Under that assumption, I would guess that it can be read these ways:

> The juice ends up spilling, but  
>  I want it all without spilling

or

> The juice ends up spilling, but  
>  I want it all without complaining

or even

> I end up complaining about the juice, but  
>  I want it all without complaining

or even still

> I end up complaining about the juice, but  
>  I want it all without spilling

...however, without further context, or direct input from the writer, it may
be impossible to know which meaning was truly intended.
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