To beat a horse for doing something that comes naturally to him, like running away from pain, is clearly the act of a brutal or crazy person.

因为马出于本能而做出诸如“因疼痛而逃跑”等行为而鞭打它们，实在是残酷或疯狂的人才会采取的行为。

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I call that a true moral act when we perceive a thing completely and act, and not when forced by circumstances, or there is brought about a brotherhood forced by the sheer brutal necessity of life.

如果我们完全理解了一件事情并有所作为，而不是受环境驱使，或者被无情的最基本生存需要所驱使产生兄弟关系，那么我把这种行为叫做真正的德行。

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The play darkens, naturally, for the Surinam act, but equally naturally it becomes predictable: the chain gangs, the brutal punishments, the odious English slave owners, though Mr Bandele keeps Behn's one good white, the Governor's agent Mr Trefry, to balance Orumba.

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Tina, at fifty-three, is still performing and recording, and in the absence of the snuffed-out-in-her-prime option, the screenwriter, Kate Lanier, and the director, Brian Gibson, have constructed the movie as a kind of feminist survival story: Tina (Angela Bassett) rises to fame as part of a husband-and-wife act, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, but then breaks away from her brutal, domineering spouse (Laurence Fishburne) and climbs back to the top of the charts on her own.

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