The notion of "an eye for an eye" is usually cited or held up as typical of the harsh and cruel standards of the vengeful Old Testament God.

以眼还眼“的概念常被引用，被推崇为带有报复,心理的《旧约》上帝所制定的典型标准，严酷而残忍。

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The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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It requires, for Machiavelli, the founding of regimes requires that kind of cold and cruel calculation.

对马奇亚维利而言，那需要政体的创建,需要那种冷酷与残忍的算计。

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And by the time I'm 500,I become completely self-absorbed and I'm sort of a vicious,cruel,vile person.

00岁的时候，我变得完全自私,我变得邪恶，残酷和卑鄙。

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