It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.

如果一个人受到侮辱损害而又没有力量对罪人直接施行惩罚，这实在是一件痛苦不堪的事。

His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever.

他的刑罚是大能的；一个打了我，使我永远谦卑。

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。

" Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance" .

“英格拉姆小姐应该是宽容的，因为她有能力施加凡人无法承受的惩罚”。

No, Daughter, far from it: I will purify you with wholesome chastisement, and furnish you with full leisure for contrition and remorse.

不，女儿，远非如此：我将以有益的惩罚净化你， 并为你提供充足的时间来忏悔和悔恨。

Epps never failed to inflict the severest chastisement on the unlucky servant who, either carelessly or unavoidably, was guilty in the least degree in this respect.

埃普斯总是对这个不幸的仆人给予最严厉的惩罚，因为他们要么粗心大意， 要么不可避免地在这方面犯下了最轻微的罪行。

I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days.

我不需要被引导到众所周知的房间，过去我经常被传唤到那里接受惩罚或训斥。

And now, as if by some hideous magic, this loud red figure had risen before him in unmanageable solidity — an incorporate past which had not entered into his imagination of chastisements.

而现在，仿佛被某种可怕的魔法所施， 这个响亮的红色身影以无法控制的坚实度出现在他面前——一个完整的过去， 没有进入他对惩罚的想象。

The spirit of evil might have sent him to threaten Mr. Bulstrode's subversion as an instrument of good; but the threat must have been permitted, and was a chastisement of a new kind.

邪恶的精神可能派他去威胁布尔斯特罗德先生作为善的工具的颠覆；但威胁一定是被允许的，而且是一种新的惩罚。

" My tongue is my concern, " Corbray replied. " Your ladyship should take care to mind her own. I have never taken kindly to chastisement, as any number of dead men could tell you" .

" 我的言辞我自己知道关心，" 科布瑞反唇相讥，" 夫人您注意自个儿就好了。许多死人可以告诉您，我可不是喜欢听人教训的骑士。"