"My father," Beatrice said weakly, "why did you do this terrible thing to your own child?"

VOA: special.2009.05.30

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

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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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What a terrible thing for him to be there!

VOA: special.2009.04.18

If we look down at it and say, "It's a terrible thing that " I just derive benefits from helping other people", then that part of our nature will depreciate over time.

如果我鄙视它并说，“很可怕,我从帮助他人身上获得利益，那么本性中那一部分将随时间贬值。

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"The thing that makes me loved the most is trust me enough to make terrible,terrible jokes whether they are just bad, or don't make any sense, or are really offensive and they know that I get,at least, where they are coming from.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

Still Milgram's work is interesting in many--for many reasons, in large part because he provides an illustration of the perfect situation for getting somebody to do a terrible thing and the perfect situation has certain ingredients.

虽然如此，他的实验还是有很多有趣的地方，很大程度上是因为他解释了,什么情况最有可能,让人做出可怕的行为,这个最有可能的情况包含几个要素。

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