Britain's Chief Spy in First Public Address The head of Britain's Secret Service, John Sawers, said torture is "abhorrent" and Britain has nothing to do with it.

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John Sawers took the opportunity to outline his agency's attitude to torture.

约翰·索尔斯（John Sawers）借此机会表明了军情六处对酷刑的态度。

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On the other hand, since upright officials are needed by the feudal rulers, they will inevitably have some faults of the feudal culture in themselves, such as judging cases according to intuition and maintaining the social morals by cruel torture.

清官既然是统治者的需要，他也会表现为封建文化本身的缺陷，如靠直觉判案，运用酷刑维持风化等行为。

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People have been hiding things beneath Moscow for centuries: Byzantine libraries, Ivan the Terrible's secret torture chamber, and Catherine the Great's underground canal network. So it's unsurprising that Stalin got in on the action.

几个世纪以来，人们已在莫斯科地下藏了不少东西：拜占庭图书馆（Byzantine libraries）、伊凡雷帝（Ivan the Terrible）的秘密酷刑室和凯瑟琳大帝（Catherine the Great）的地下通道网，所以斯大林也想加入他们的行列也就不足为奇了。

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Subjecting to torture is a typical example of cruel torture in China. Therefore, the key step to get rid of cruel torture is to control subjecting to torture.

刑讯逼供是我国酷刑行为的典型存在方式，所以，遏制刑讯逼供是消除酷刑的关键环节。

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On the question of enhanced interrogation, which some critics say torture, all the candidates said they supported its use in some s except for Congressman Paul and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.

关于“强化审讯”（enhanced interrogation）的问题，一些批评人士声称这相当于酷刑，除了国会议员保罗和前新墨西哥州州长约翰逊（Gary Johnson）之外，所有候选人都表示他们支持在某些情况下使用强化审讯。

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His period of ordeal was to be thirty thousand years.

宙斯判他三万年这样的酷刑。

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The death penalty is torture, should be applied carefully.

死刑是酷刑，适用应当慎重。

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If I were tortured, I'd confess to anything.

如果我被用酷刑，我会坦白承认任何事。

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It looks like some kind of primitive form of torture.

这看起来活像是原始的酷刑。

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So now that Barry Manilow has joined the "Music as Torture" club, we thought we'd present the Top10 List of Torture Tunes.

所以，现在的巴里曼尼洛已经加入了“音乐酷刑”俱乐部，我们认为我们希望目前排在前十位的酷刑Tunes的推广。

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the use of torture terrible instruments of torture a business suit a pinstripe suit a two-/ three-piece suit (= of two/ three pieces of clothing) We work every day except Sunday.

施酷刑可怕的刑讯工具西服；西装；套装公务装一套细条纹西装一套两件/三件式西装（用于所言不包括的人或事物前）除…之外同义词：apart from我们除星期天外每天都工作。

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The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture

被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。

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The report says torture was widespread, as were extra-judicial executions by government troops.

报告说酷刑普遍存在，政府军法外行刑也屡见不鲜。

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Drugs like Prolixin are described by users as "sheer torture" and "becoming a zombie".

象Prolixin这种药被服用者描述成“纯粹的酷刑”和“变成行尸走肉”。

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But there he was on Twitter, lamenting the prospect of yet another torment in the hell of modern air travel: people talking on cellphones.

可是罗宾斯恰恰就在Twitter上，嗟叹着现代航空地狱可能出现的另一种磨人酷刑：乘客打电话。

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The wages of such sins are austerity.

这些“罪孽”的报应是禁欲苦行.

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I'm not handing out hair shirts, either.

我也不会交出苦行衫.

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A 42-year-old professional woman who was held in a house and gang raped for three days described her ordeal to Human Rights Watch

一位42岁的职业妇女在一所房子里被轮奸三天，她向人权观察讲述了她的苦难

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A 35-year-old teacher described to Human Rights Watch how she was gang raped at the stadium

一位35岁的女老师告诉人权观察她是如何在体育场被轮奸

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Indians mourn gang rape victim

印度人轮奸受害者表示哀悼

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