punish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 惩罚， 处罚，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equiva-lent to his crime.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove would instantly leave the Trojans and Achae-ans to themselves; he would come to Olympus to punish us, and would grip us up one after another, guilty or not guilty.
-- As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and arriving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.
-- First he put a waistband round him and then he gave him some well-cut thongs of ox-hide; the two men being now girt went into the middle of the ring, and immediately fell to; heavily indeed did they punish one an-other and lay about them with their brawny fists.
-- Apollo killed the sons with arrows from his silver bow, to punish Niobe, and Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto; she said Leto had borne two children only, whereas she had herself borne many whereon the two killed the many.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- repeated the Indian, casting an oblique glance of the most ferocious expression at her unyielding coun-tenance; 'is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forced myself to go out for hours together in order to leave them by themselves; I wanted to punish myself for suspicions which were unworthy of me; and when I came back I found they didn't want me not Strickland, he didn't care if I was there or not, but Blanche.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You gentlemen have as good a right to punish her boy, that God has kept in ignorance of sound and speech, as you have to punish mine, that you kept in ignorance yourselves.
-- 'When she finds how much we know, and how we know it,' he said, 'and that she is clearly compromised already, we are not without strong hopes that we may be enabled through her means to punish the other two effectually.
-- Punish Quilp, gentlemen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he made the discovery that to discharge this highly connected female to have it in his power to say, 'She was a woman of family, and wanted to stick to me, but I wouldn't have it, and got rid of her' would be to get the utmost possible amount of crowning glory out of the connection, and at the same time to punish Mrs. Sparsit according to her deserts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'O, pray don't punish him any more,' cried Little Dorrit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had hesitated for one instant to punish Oliver most severely, it must be quite clear to every experienced reader that he would have been, according to all precedents in disputes of matrimony established, a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man, and various other agreeable characters too numerous for recital within the limits of this chapter.
-- Now, if you stand there, refusing to give evidence, I'll punish you for disrespect to the bench; I will, by--' By what, or by whom, nobody knows, for the clerk and jailor coughed very loud, just at the right moment; and the former dropped a heavy book upon the floor, thus preventing the word from being heard--accidently, of course.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How shall we punish him for such a speech?'
-- 'We can all plague and punish one another.
-- 'Pray forgive me if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so far as to exclude me from P. I shall never be quite happy till I have been all round the park.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then reflected, that as God, who was not only righteous but omnipotent, had thought fit thus to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not think fit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty to resign myself absolutely and entirely to His will; and, on the other hand, it was my duty also to hope in Him, pray to Him, and quietly to attend to the dictates and directions of His daily providence, These thoughts took me up many hours, days, nay, I may say weeks and months: and one particular effect of my cogi-tations on this occasion I cannot omit.
-- By this time I had recovered my-self a little, and I said, 'God will at last punish him severely; he is reserved for the judgment, and is to be cast into the bottomless pit, to dwell with everlasting fire.'
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mastro Geppetto, in order to punish him for his mischief, let him alone the whole morning.
-- He opened the door, pulled out the Weasels one by one, and, after tying them in a bag, said to them in a happy voice: "You're in my hands at last!I could punish you now, but I'll wait!In the morning you may come with me to the inn and there you'll make a fine dinner for some hungry mortal.
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