If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

如果一客人在你的地盘惹恼你，不要对他仁慈，要残忍对待。

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But the laughs seem to be a mere sugar coating for the very bitter pill that Leigh is serving up, namely that relationships in particular and life in general can treat us cruelly.

然而，欢笑只不过是表面的一层糖衣，迈克•李所要呈现的却是糖衣包裹下的那剂苦药，即：生活是残酷的，感情也一样。

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It looks as if they treat the animals rather cruelly.

看起来他们对待这些动物很残忍。

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In Elian's case, too, the charges and counter-charges are now about child abuse: whether his Miami relatives, who took him in last November, are turning the boy against his father, or whether his father would treat him more cruelly by taking him back to Cardenas.

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Most deep-in-hock countries have no genuinely independent judiciary and treat their citizens capriciously and cruelly.

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