Penalty

(noun.) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game.

(noun.) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; 'neglected his health and paid the penalty'.

(noun.) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract.

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• Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• On the other hand, the majority of the populace unquestionably would demand that we pay the penalty of our sacrilege. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• If imported in ships of any other country, the penalty is forfeiture of ship and goods. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You have achieved so much, Lady Dedlock, said my guardian, that you pay some little penalty, I dare say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Besides the forfeiture of the goods, the exporter incurs the penalty of 3s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I am feeling the penalty at laSt. My nervous system is shattered; my nights are nights of horror. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I have paid the penalty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Let his fortune be what it will, whether he is or is not able to pay those heavy penalties, the law means to ruin him completely. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My immediate comrade and I talked in an undertone about quarantine laws and their penalties, but we found nothing cheering in the subject. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The prohibition, notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it, does not prevent the exportation of wool. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Daniel Doyce faced his condition with its pains and penalties attached to it, and soberly worked on for the work's sake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In statecraft the penalties and rewards are tremendous. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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