Married off to her cousin at age 16, she had been beaten routinely by her husband and in-laws in their poor rural home in Paktia province for the first three years of her marriage.

自从她16岁嫁给自己的堂兄，加入帕克·提亚省这个贫穷的农民家庭，三年来她经常性地遭到丈夫及夫家亲戚们的毒打。

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What will happen in homes in poor rural areas is always beyond the reach of such laws should they come to pass.

对那些家住偏远地区的人们来说通常是不会知道有这样一来的法律的，那么他们是赫免者。

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To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws.

抛弃可怜的我，你有法律保障。

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Parts of the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in Stoke were built in the 1860s under the Poor Laws.

BBC: Analysis: An out-of-date estate?

In Smith's time, the poor laws made parishes responsible for those who could not work but who had legally settled in the parish.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Nevertheless, the laws are a poor way to start building a society in Northern Ireland based on respect for the rule of law.

ECONOMIST: Overreact in haste, repent at leisure