It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.
如果一个侮辱损害而又没有力量对罪直接施行惩罚,这实是一件痛苦不堪的事。
But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement.
但是布尔斯特罗德先生今晚不得不顺从的情绪。毫不怀疑,赔偿的机会已经来,对反对惩罚的忏悔表达产生了一种压倒性的冲动。
In vain he said to himself that, if permitted, it would be a divine visitation, a chastisement, a preparation; he recoiled from the imagined burning; and he judged that it must be more for the Divine glory that he should escape dishonor.
对自己说,如果允许的话,那将是一次神圣的降临,一种惩罚,一种准备,但徒劳无功;从想象中的燃烧中退缩了;断定,为了上帝的荣耀,应该逃避耻辱。