Drug dealers face a severe punishment.

贩毒者会受到严厉的惩罚。

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Fate reserved a severe punishment for us.

命中注定我们要受严厉的处罚。

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Severe The man was given a severe punishment for stealing.

那人因偷窃而受到严厉的处罚。

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That could create a problem for government lawyers seeking the most severe punishment for the accused C spending the rest of his life in prison.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

Hardly a severe punishment by investors, who clearly see that taking good care of sensitive data is not really that much of an issue.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Data safety at top of the agenda

The law barred "humiliating and degrading treatment" if a head teacher decided against exclusion and settled for a less severe punishment of taking a pupil away from his or her peer group, she said.

BBC: Violent pupil 'taught in isolation'

Under military law, nonjudicial punishment is a less severe form of punishment than prosecution.

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