Sir Thomas Picton's portrait hangs in a court room in Wales, sword in hand, as if menacing defendants or reminding them how lucky they are to live in times when the law is less savage than in his day.

托马斯·皮克顿爵士的肖像悬挂于威尔士一家法庭之中，利剑在手，好像在威胁着被告，或是在提醒被告，他们活在法律比起他的时代没有那么残酷的当下是多么幸运。

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"Not only did [Cold] snap the beak of the American eagle, " Kucherena writes, "but he also gave him a good kick and a very humiliating one, as if it was not a menacing predator but a rural hen.

“［科尔德］不仅折断了美国鹰的嘴，”库切连纳写道，“而且给了他狠狠的一脚，极尽羞辱的一脚，仿佛它不是一只危险的猛禽，而是一只农村的母鸡。”

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The film is polished and menacing in its own way, as if her brother were trying to produce a film about his own terrifying mental deterioration.

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If you stretch the metaphor a bit, the books could be seen as a menacing fable of capitalism, in which an ethos of competition increasingly yields winner-take-all victors.

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