残酷的

It was said that whenever people were passing through the temple at night, they would often hear severe scolding and cruel whippings, followed by hopeless wails bitterly beseeching mercy, directly from the inside of temple.

据说每到夜里﹐当人们从庙前经过﹐总会时常听到一些严厉的叱责声及残酷的鞭打声﹐夹杂著绝望的呼叫声以及凄厉的求饶声直接从庙里传出来。

While we do not want to go to the days of the Wild West where vigilantes roamed the land enforcing brutal justice on criminals, we have to do something.

虽然我们不想去的日子狂野的西部地方民团出没的土地实行残酷的罪犯绳之以法，我们必须做些什么。

Let us study the law of nature; search into the spirit of the British Constitution; read the histories of ancient ages; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome; set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who have defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short, against the gates of earth and hell.

我们的祖先已经爲我们保卫了人类的固有权利，即反对国内外暴君和篡权者，反对专制国王和残酷的神父，总之，反对人间和地狱之门的权利。

Even nowadays, to mark cows for identification, ranchers push hot fire irons into their flesh as they bellow in pain. Consequently, third degree burns occur and male calves testicles are ripped from their scrotums all without pain relief.

现今，对於工厂化养殖场的动物，没有法令保护他们免於残酷的虐待，而这些行为若加诸在家庭宠物身上，则属违法，例如：疏於照顾、致残、基因操控、导致长期痛苦和残害的施药、及残暴的屠宰。

Even nowadays, to mark cows for identification, ranchers push hot fire irons into their flesh as they bellow in pain. Consequently, third degree burns occur and male calves testicles are ripped from their scrotums all without pain relief.

现今，对於工厂化养殖场的动物，没有执法保护他们免於残酷的虐待，而这些行为若加诸在家庭宠物身上，则属违法，比方：疏於照顾、致残、基因操控、导致长期痛楚和残害的施药、及残暴的屠宰。

One of the most important political changes in China over the past 30 years has been a move away from the vicious factional strife of the Maoist era, a tendency that persisted well into the 1980s and fuelled the pro-democracy upheaval of 1989. In 2002, for the first time in China's communist history, power was smoothly transferred from one set of leaders to another without killings or purgings.

过去30年来中国最重要的政治变革之一便是抛弃毛泽东时代残酷的派系斗争，这一趋势一直持续到20世纪80年代，引发了1989年的民主运动。2002年，中共历史上首次实现了在没有杀戮或肃反的情况下将权力由一个领导班子平稳地移交给了另一个领导班子。

The Piolet d'Or show organizers know and count on the cruel fact that they will always find plenty of desperate, passionate gladiators and clowns to role-play in the fame game.

金冰镐奖的组织者明白并依赖于那个残酷的事实，就是他们总可以找到那种渴盼的、疯狂的格斗者和小丑乐于在这种名誉游戏中扮演角色。

He composed, with gentle touches and melodious tones, many paeans of beauty and good which helped to ease people's fear and anguish in the harsh times of war.

在残酷的战争年代里，他用温情而悠扬的笔致，抒写了一篇又一篇美与善的赞歌，极大地中和了严酷战争给人们带来的苦痛。

The humblest workman's mate can be shifted to an even more lowly and worse-paid job.

最恭顺的劳动者的同事可能因为在一个会上或酒吧里说出他头脑中所想的而遭到残酷的惩罚。

Do you know his training to enable him to adapt Athens's climate, helps them to carry on the training which the devil resembles, he delivers the suburb with the steering handle, lets him in the stipulation time run again, brutal training, but he has never had half a word complaint, is only remain obscure trains.

你们知不知道他的教练为了让他能适应雅典的气候，帮他们进行魔鬼似的训练，用车把他送到郊外去，在规定的时间内再让他跑回来，多残酷的训练呀，可他从来没有过半句怨言，只是默默无闻地训练。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。