punishment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 罚， 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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
-- 'But is there capital punishment where you were?'
-- 'Neither do I; in fact, I should be glad, merely as a proper punishment for our dear Lizabetha Prokofievna.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Punishment is sharp and sure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The punishment is death where the murderer can be found; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so.
-- One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment set-tles all scores.
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：
-- When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high enco-mium on the virtue of wisdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I love the child if you could do without making me deceive her 'The dwarf muttering a terrible oath looked round as if for some weapon with which to inflict condign punishment upon his disobedient wife.
-- This defeat had its origin in the untoward detection of a new associate young Frederick Trent who thus became the unconscious instrument of their punishment and his own.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the reading was over, the justiciary asked the prosecutor what punishment he thought should be imposed on the prisoners.
-- In his speech he argued that the theft was committed in a dwelling-house by breaking and entering it, and that therefore the severest punishment should be meted out to him.
-- It was ordered----" "But corporal punishment has been abolished."
-- Nekhludoff recalled what he had seen the other day while waiting in the vestibule, and understood that the punishment had then been taking place, and with peculiar force came upon him that mingled feeling of curiosity, sadness, doubt, and moral, almost passing over into physical, nausea which he had felt before, but never with such force.
-- "I only know one thing, and that is that the woman is entirely innocent, and the last hope of saving her from an undeserved punishment is gone.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a horrible kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot and left behind on some desolate and distant island.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was the good of digging if I must be suffocated, crushed by the water that was turning into stone? a punishment that the ferocity of the savages even would not have invented!Just then Captain Nemo passed near me.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called she must have been a changeling wicked little soul!She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!
-- The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.
-- But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at.
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