我记得那是我整个童年唯一的一次,因为挨打而疼得我差点哭不出声来——小的时候挨打一般都是会哭的。
I remember that this was the only time throughout my boyhood when a beating actually reduced me to tears, and curiously enough I was not even now crying because of the pain.
某个村子几年前“不可碰触者”还会挨打,更糟的是,有时仅仅为自己的影子掠过了地位更高的人而挨打,现在人们看到他们可以坐在一起吃饭。
In one village where an "untouchable" was a few years ago beaten, or worse, merely for letting his shadow pass over someone of a higher caste, neighbours now find they can sit together for meals.
There are some things pigs actually automatically don't like, like being hit or shocked.
有些东西是猪天生就不喜欢的,比如挨打或受到惊吓。
His flinch is not the same response that one would give if one's hit.
不是所有的人在挨打时,都会做出相同的闪躲反应。
What happened in that case is he has learned that the raising of a hand is a signal that he is about to be hit and so he responds to that signal.
在这个例子中,他知道,举起的手臂是他即将挨打的信号,因此他对这个信号作出了反应。
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