“多年来，我们一直在惩罚逃学者，但这并没有让他们回到学校，”一位校长说。

"We've been punishing truancy for years, but that hasn't brought them back to school," one school principal said.

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他们相信他们的灵魂会受到惩罚，在地狱里永受煎熬。

They believed that their souls would be condemned to burn in hell for eternity.

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那些在法庭上未受到惩罚的惯犯受到了当地人的处置。

Persistent criminals who have gone unpunished by the courts have been dealt with by local people.

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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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