And you don't have to be too careful or fine about gradations of punishment in the state of nature.

而且在自然状态中，你不必,对实施惩罚的程度太过小心。

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He's punishing the evil corruption of human beings that he has so lovingly created and whose degradation he can't bear to witness.

他这是在惩罚人类的堕落,上帝充满爱意地创造了人,而人却堕落得让他不可容忍。

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He had done a terrible thing and there he stood forever with his feet in the water below, and above him a tree with grapes hanging down, and dying of thirst.

他做了坏事,被惩罚永远站在水中,头上是一棵挂满葡萄的葡萄树,他口渴异常

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In the middle Assyrian laws also, homicide--it's up to the family.

同样，在中亚述法典里，对杀人罪的惩罚取决于死者家人。

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Crimes in the one realm cannot be compensated by punishment in the other realm. A crime in the realm of life/personal injury has to be compensated in the same realm. In the same way property crimes are not punished by death.

一个领域内的犯罪行为不能通过另一个领域的,惩罚来补偿，造成人身伤害的罪行必须在,同一领域内偿还，同样地，财产犯罪,不能被处以死刑。

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That is to say,the reward of good behavior the admiration and the honor that a hero gets, and the most serious punishment he can suffer is to be shamed in front of that community.

也就是说,对正面行为的犒赏,就是得到如英雄般的尊敬和仰慕,而最严厉的惩罚,就是在集体面前当众蒙羞

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