An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth describes a way of thinking.

以眼还眼，以牙还牙描述了一种思维方式。

Giving voice to the common consensus among law-abiding Jews, Jesus declares, ''You have heard it said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

对那些在一般意义上守法的犹太人，耶稣说：“你们一向听过‘以眼还眼，以牙还牙。’

It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thing—it was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

这是一个过时的系统， 试图对每一个凡人施加惩罚——它是旧约的 lex talionis， 以眼还眼，以牙还牙。