It is noticeable that the family metaphor is adopted by such organized groups as the Mafia, and who punish severely any family members who transgress family rules.

值得注意的是家族这一象征同样适用于如黑帮，或其他激烈惩处所有背叛家规的家族成员的组织团伙。

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We should strengthen supervision and control by improving our institutions. And we ought to punish severely the enterprises of whom the misconducts are turned a deaf ear to.

要从制度上加强监管并且严惩，对于那些置若罔闻的企业必须进行重惩，奖罚分明才能形成正气。

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The environment ministry says it will put full-time inspectors into all big mines, tighten licensing and punish polluters more severely.

环保部门表示，将在所有大矿区配置专职巡查员，严格执照发放，并更严厉地惩治污染者。

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Public opinion would see those enemies as the stooges of the Organization of the Islamic Conference who continuously and by every means pressure European governments to punish severely what it consider blasphemy according to shariah law.

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