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惩罚
Punishment
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
特别的苦难并不总是对特别的罪的惩罚，有时是对特别恩典的试炼。
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
为了使圣徒能更充分地享受他们的福乐和上帝的恩典，他们被允许看到地狱中被诅咒者的惩罚。
The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness of still punishment.
法律的文字应该弯曲;这种弯曲应该随着自由之风而来，而不是走向死气沉沉的惩罚。
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
在我的童年时代，我总是觉得我受到了不公正的对待，没有母亲，生病了，我的头上悬着地狱的惩罚的威胁。
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
基于对永恒惩罚的恐惧的任何行为是可以被视为道德的，还是应该仅仅被视为懦弱的，这是一个悬而未决的问题。
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
地狱和永恒的惩罚是人类头脑中最荒谬、最令人不快的想法。
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
世界上没有任何一项运动像棒球那样干净利落、引人注目，其因果、犯罪与惩罚、动机与结果都被如此清晰地定义。
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
我很早就知道了生命的痛苦和危险，知道了来世，知道了在地狱里等待罪恶之子的外部惩罚。
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
我们不仅在新的殖民前哨而且在国内被铲除，成为无助的奴隶，难道历史上的惩罚和苦难还不够吗?
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
而死刑，无论多么无效，无论出于何种无知，至少在理论上，都是一种严格的防卫行为。
If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
如果在我的斗争中，我能鼓励甚至一些人去理解和放弃他们现在盲目遵循的政策，我将不会为我可能受到的任何惩罚感到后悔。
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
惩罚也许能使我们服从上帝给我们的命令，但充其量也只能教会我们服从权威，而不是增强我们自尊的自我控制。
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
惩罚不是为了报复，而是为了减少犯罪，改造罪犯。
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
爱情会把大象从钥匙孔里拉出来。
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
对儿童的犯罪是最令人发指的罪行。对我来说，这将是死刑的一个理由，因为孩子是无辜的，需要一个成人社会的指导。
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
死刑从根本上来说是错误的，就像慈善不能治愈贫困一样。
Punishment is lame but it comes.
惩罚是跛脚的，但它来了。
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
恐惧跟随着犯罪，是对犯罪的惩罚。