We hope, perhaps, that human laws and natural sympathy would hold society together.

我们寄望，或许，人类法则和本性悲悯可以促进整个社会凝聚抱团。

But, be comforted, we have kept all human laws.

但是，请放心，我们遵守了所有人类法律。

Upheld by the menace of chastisement, human laws may be eluded by cunning and dissimulation.

在惩罚的威胁下， 人类的法律可能会被狡猾和伪装所逃避。

Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?

难道让一个同胞陷入绝望，总比违反一条没有人受到伤害的纯粹的人类法律好吗？

Not only had he placed himself beyond human laws, he had rendered himself independent, out of all reach, free in the strictest sense of the word!

他不单把自己放在人类的法律之外，而且使自己绝对的独立、自由，不受任何约束！

Think not that I shall interfere with Heaven's own method of retribution, or, to my own loss, betray him to the gripe of human law.

不要以为我会干涉天堂自己的报复方法， 或者，我自己的损失，把他出卖给人类法律的控制。

Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits!

这就是大自然的同情——森林中野蛮、异教的大自然，从未被人类法律所征服，也从未被更高的真理所照亮——与这两种精神的幸福！

But the sea, in those old times, heaved, swelled, and foamed very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law.

但是，在过去，大海的起伏、膨胀和泛起的泡沫非常随心所欲，或者只受狂风的影响， 几乎没有任何人为规律的尝试。

" Oh" ! said Hepzibah carelessly, —for, formal as she was, still, in her life's experience, she had gnashed her teeth against human law, —" I suppose he has a law of his own" !

“哦” ！Hepzibah 漫不经心地说， 因为，尽管她很正式， 但在她的生活经验中， 她仍然咬牙切齿地反对人类法律， “我想他有自己的法律” ！