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。
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他的情绪。他毫不怀疑,赔偿的机已经到来,他对他反对惩罚的忏悔表达产生了一种压倒性的冲动。
They have the right, either by law, or by general consent, to inflict discretionary chastisement upon a black man caught beyond the boundaries of his master's estate without a pass, and even to shoot him, if he attempts to escape.
他们有权根据法律或普遍同意,对未经通行证而被抓到主人庄园边界之外的黑人酌情处罚, 如果他试图逃跑, 甚至以开枪打死他。
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.
他对自己说,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;他从想象中的燃烧中退缩了;他断定,为了上帝的荣耀,他应该逃避耻辱。