心理控制建立在恐惧和惩罚的基础之上——任何对罗马统治权威造成威胁的人或者事物都将被彻底摧毁，这是绝对肯定的。

The psychological controls were built on fear and punishment—on the absolute certainty that anyone or anything that threatened the authority of Rome would be utterly destroyed.

youdao

所有这些名词都意味着大量的人或者事物。

These nouns all denote a very great number of people or things.

youdao

我认为规范控制的目的在于解决概念或者事物的单一表现的问题。

I think that the goal of authority control is to come up with a single representation for a concept or a thing.

youdao

A supplement, he points out, is something that either completes something that isn't complete or adds to something that already is complete.

他指出，一个补充物，或者是补充了不完整的事物,或者补充了已经完整的事物。

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They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

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He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

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