If it be so, if I have been misled by such error, to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable.

倘若事实果真如此，倘若果真是我弄错了，造成令姐的痛苦，那当然难怪你气愤。

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Either way, they were serene and unwilling to inflict pain on others-exactly like those who were given word of social acceptance.

在任一种情况下，他们都很平静，不愿对他人造成痛苦——完全像那些收到通知被社会接受的人。

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Ireland, they say, must continue to inflict pain on its citizens - because to do anything else would fatally undermine confidence.

他们说，爱尔兰必需继续给自己的公民施加痛苦——因为其它任何办法对信心恢复造成致命的伤害。

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But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

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I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.

我会背，比如说，联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿，它在靴子里颤抖，然后开始背，直到犯错，于是，我就会被批评严惩，自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。

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Thompson is attracted to that formula because it could inflict pain on the intended target without the collateral damage to U.S. importers that high tariffs would cause.

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The reason for alarm is that high oil prices inflict pain on consuming economies in so many nasty ways, ranging from higher inflation to deteriorating terms of trade and a decline in international competitiveness.

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Raul Fuentes Villota told a hearing last month that he was tortured while being held by Spanish police in 1991, including having pencils placed between his fingers and squeezed to inflict pain on his hands.

BBC: Raul Fuentes Villota