penalty

• He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges .
  他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
• To impose a penalty on smoking in the street is a stretch of the law .
  对街上吸烟罚款是对法律的滥用。
• To impose a penalty on smoking in the street is a stretch of the law .
  对在街上吸烟罚款是对法律的滥用。
• The death penalty for murder works on the principle of an eye for an eye .
  犯谋杀罪处以死刑，其原则是一命抵一命。
• Those who are parties to the social contract seem to suffer no penalties at all .
  社会契约的有关方面似乎逍遥法外。
• Confiscation of smuggled property is part of the penalty for certain offences .
  没收走私财产是对某些犯罪予以惩罚的一部分。
• He who beholds the gods against their will, shall atone for it by a heavy penalty .
  谁违背神的意志看见了神，就要受到重罚以赎罪。
• We decided to go ahead anyway, not thinking of the penalty we might have to pay .
  我们决定无论如何要干下去，不考虑我们可能得付出什么代价。
• I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headachesa perfect circlet of pain !
  我受到的惩罚便是头痛，我那了不得的头痛头的四周一圈都发疼！
• In rejoinder, the abolitionists question the superior deterrent value of the death penalty .
  废除死刑者在答辩中对死刑具有最大的威慑价值表示怀疑。