What's the use of even punishing someone if they can choose their own punishments as they like?

如果一个人可以选择自己喜欢的惩罚方式，那么惩罚他们又有什么用呢？

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They're welcome to stay here as long as they like.

他们在这里愿意住多久就住多久。

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Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like.

他们想怎么用力地打老板娃娃就怎么打。

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A stopper device on the tube-like container held food for the ants as they traveled to their new homes.

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Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

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The laws are not only like our parents, they are like our ancestors, as we might say, who are owed respect and piety.

法律不只像是我们的父母，也像是我们的祖先，我们可以说，他们值得我尊重与孝敬。

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Under certain conditions, they can also take off as much time as they like.

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They can spend as much as they like, when they like, and how they like.

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"They can go on hounding me, I supposed as much as they like, " he said.

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