每当你对一个人说一些残酷或善良的话，你不知道这些话会在他们心中停留多久。

Whenever you say something to a person cruel or kind, you have no idea how long the words will stay with them.

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这本书讲述了一个残酷而令人生畏的故事，让人不禁想知道它与真理究竟是什么关系。

This book tells a harsh and forbidding story, and makes one wonder just exactly what its relation with truth is.

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查尔斯·戴伦体会到了宗教裁判所代理人的残酷。

Charles Dellon experienced the cruelty of the Inquisition's agents.

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He draws a contrast between the men who give just decisions to strangers and to natives, and who do not depart from what is just, and those who practice violence and cruel deeds.

他对比了,那些即便在面对异乡人和不谙世事者,仍秉持正义给予公正判断的人,和那些残酷暴戾恶果累累的人

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