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残酷
Cruel
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
如果我们两国之间发生战争，他没有理由把我们处死;他们对他们残酷的伪装感到失望。为此，神要受更大的赞美，直到永远。
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.
当孩子死后，父母不得不做出许多残酷的决定。殡仪馆馆长要了一张铺在棺材上的床单，我送来了舒适的法兰绒床单，淡蓝的，上面画着快乐的雪人，那是刚和冬天的床单放在一起的。
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
一切都从你自己开始，从你决定你的人生要做什么开始。我告诉孩子们，这是一个残酷的世界，这个世界会让他们向左或向右弯曲，这取决于他们决定向哪个方向弯曲。
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
小说是一种产生同情心的机器，把我们从懒惰中拯救出来。生活是善良的还是残酷的?是的,文学的答案。人是好是坏?没错，文学说。但与其他认知系统不同的是，文学拒绝消除一个事实而代之以另一个事实。
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
我喜欢动物，因为它们不自觉地残忍，不会背叛彼此。
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
相信残忍的上帝会使人变得残忍。
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
真理是残酷的，但它是可以被爱的，它使爱它的人获得自由。
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
我们对自己施加的阻止自己去爱的力量，往往比被爱之人最严厉的对待还要残酷。
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
野蛮残忍的野兽是不会被关在笼子里的。他在它的前面。
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
残忍的领导者被取代，只会让新的领导者变得残忍。