Goldman insists it knew nothing about their activities, but has acknowledged that it may face severe penalties.

高盛坚称，对两人的活动毫不知情，但承认可能将面临严厉处罚。

Already this year, lawmakers in more than 15 states have introduced bills to place severe penalties on libraries or librarians.

今年，已有超过15个州的立法者提出了对图书馆或图书管理员施加严厉惩罚的法案。

Both of them received a severe penalty.

两人都受到了严厉处罚。

Drunk driving is liable to severe penalty.

7.醉酒驾驶将受到严厉处罚。

N.B. I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties.

N.B我不允许叫他叔叔，受到最严厉的惩罚。

There are severe penalties for late payment of taxes.

【payment】晚缴税款要支付高额罚金。

Drug smugglers can expect severe penalties.

【severe，severity】毒品贩子会受到重判。

Australia approved a new law imposing severe penalties on social-media firms that fail to remove footage of crimes such as murder and rape.

澳大利亚通过了一项新法律，对未能删除谋杀和强奸等犯罪视频的社交媒体公司实施严厉惩罚。

Portugal does not content herself with imposing higher duties upon the importation of tobacco from any other country, but prohibits it under the severest penalties.

葡萄牙并不满足于对从任何其他国家进口的烟草征收更高的关税，而是以最严厉的处罚予以禁止。

Officials also expected that fraudulent shipments would be reduced by the severe penalties that the sanctions bill places on American importers who knowingly accept embargoed goods.

官员们还预计，制裁法案对故意接受禁运货物的美国进口商实施严厉处罚，从而减少欺诈性运输。

They factor that in as a cost of doing business and that has to change and the only thing that will change that I think our severe penalties that could result in jail.

他们把这作为做生意的成本，这必须改变，唯一会改变的是，我认为我们的严厉惩罚可能导致坐牢。

Spain and Portugal, the proprietors of the principal mines which supply Europe with those metals, have either prohibited their exportation under the severest penalties, or subjected it to a considerable duty.

西班牙和葡萄牙是向欧洲供应这些金属的主要矿山的所有者， 它们要么以最严厉的处罚禁止这些金属的出口， 要么对其征收相当高的关税。