only respected by the weak who are fearful of the consequences of injustice.

仅是弱者才会遵从,因为他们害怕不公的后果。

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A fearful alchemy that's a useful definition of slavery.

可怕的炼金术,那是奴隶制的一个有建设性的定义

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But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

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