In U.S.S.R collectivization was imposed 1930 by draconian methods which met bitter peasants’ resistance

1930年苏联采取严厉的办法推行集体化时遭到农民的强烈抵制。

The reduction of staff, a wage-cut, the increasing of working hours, besides a new set of draconian regulations for putting the factories under the strictest control, were all proposed and decided on in principle in little more than ten minutes

裁人，减工资，增加工作时间，新订几条严密到无以复加的管理规则:一切都提了出来，只在十多分钟内就大体决定了。

But Superfund’s draconian liability rules offend any common-sense notion of justice

但超巨额基金所规定的严厉措施是同尽人皆知的公正观念相违背的。

Hong Kong and Singapore are famous for imposing draconian punishments on those who dare to spit or litter.

香港和新加坡以对那些胆敢随地吐痰和乱扔垃圾的人施行严惩而闻名。

uses a draconian residential permit system

严格施行户口制度

A draconian legal code;draconian budget cuts.

严酷的法典;大幅度的削减预算

Drain the legal swamp. Those who illegally dump hazardous substances should be held accountable. But Superfund’s draconian liability rules offend any common-sense notion of justice.

整顿法规:非法倾倒有害物质者应该承担责任。但超巨额基金所规定的严厉措施是同尽人皆知的公正观念相违背的。

||1: JIM KIM, the president of the World Bank, wants it to promote gay rights. ||2: He has declared the “fight to eliminate all institutionalised discrimination” to be an “urgent task”. ||3: He recently put on hold a $90m loan to Uganda’s health sector after its government introduced one of Africa’s most draconian anti-gay laws. ||4: He has ordered an overhaul of the bank’s lending policies to make sure that no loan assists discrimination. ||5: At this week’s Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, he is convening discussions with gay activists on how best to do so.

||1: 世界银行总裁Jim Kim想要提高同性恋的权利。 ||2:他曾宣称“消除所有制度化歧视的斗争”是一项“紧急的任务。”||3: 近日，本该流向乌干达健康部门的一项九千万美元的世行贷款由于乌干达政府引入一项反同性恋法而被Jim Kim搁置，该法律称得上是非洲最苛刻的反同性恋法之一。 ||4: Jim Kim已经下令对世行所有的贷款政策进行检查，以确保没有支持歧视的贷款出现。 ||5:在本周于华盛顿召开的春季会议上，他召开了一场讨论，与同性恋积极分子商讨最行之有效的方法。

||1: The White House overturned a ban on the sale of some Apple gadgets imposed by an American trade tribunal, which had sided with Samsung, a South Korean rival, in a patent dispute. ||2: Less welcome for Apple was the Justice Department’s request to a judge to curb Apple’s influence in the e-publishing market and introduce government oversight of its iTunes and App stores. ||3: Apple called the idea “draconian and punitive”.

||1:白宫驳回了美国贸易特别仲裁机构对苹果部分产品的销售禁令。该禁令源于苹果与竞争对手韩国三星的专利纠纷。||2:苹果公司也收到了司法部的要求，要求削弱苹果在电子书领域的影响力，并且让政府监管其iTunes和软件商店。||3:苹果当然不高兴，并称这过于严厉，带有惩罚性。

Yet there are still parts of the world where it is not safe to be homosexual. Extra-judicial beatings and murders are depressingly common in much of Africa and in some Muslim countries. African gangs subject lesbians to “corrective rape”. In some countries persecution has intensified. Chad is poised to ban gay sex.|| Nigeria and Uganda have passed draconian anti-gay laws (though a court recently struck Uganda’s down). Russia and a few other countries have barred the “promotion” of homosexuality.||

1:然而，世界上仍有一些地方对同性恋是不安全的。||||2:司法外的殴打和谋杀在许多非洲和穆斯林国家都非常普遍。||3:非洲集团倾向对女同性恋”纠正强奸”。||4:在一些国家迫害不断的加剧。乍得将禁止同性恋。||5:尼日利亚和乌干达已经通过了严格的反同性恋的法律（尽管法庭最近驳回了乌干达）。||6:俄罗斯和其他一些国家已经禁止“促销”同性恋。||

||1:Such an atmosphere will make it easier for the government to pass counterterrorism legislation which would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service a freer hand to pursue investigations and work with foreign counterparts.||2:Yet that will not deal with one immediate problem revealed by the gunman—security in the parliamentary precinct.||3:In the days ahead, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the national force responsible for guarding Parliament Hill, will have to explain how it was possible for an armed man to walk across the lawn in broad daylight and gain access unhindered into Canada’s seat of government.||4:It should surely be possible to prevent that without a draconian regime.

||1:这样的气氛会使政府更容易通过反恐立法，这能让加拿大安全情报局自由地展开调查并与国外同盟合作。||2:然而，这不能解决枪手带来的一个迫在眉睫的问题—议会分局的安全问题。||3:在未来几天，负责守卫国会山的加拿大皇家骑警，不得不解释一下一个武装分子如何能在光天化日之下穿过草坪，畅通无阻地进入加拿大政府所在地。||4:即使没有一个严厉的政权，这也是可以被避免的。

Alexander Turchinov, the interim president, has already said he would accept all the IMF’s terms, including draconian spending cuts.

Alexander Turchinov临时总统已经表示, 他将接受所有国际货币基金组织的条件, 包括严厉的削减开支。

“It’s impossible to see how proposals like these could be implemented in practice unless you get really draconian laws, ” Gleeson said.

“除非拥有了严厉的立法，否则真的无法了解诸如这些建议如何在实践中应用”格里森说。

He made his name as an Islamist student leader in the 1970s and was even jailed under the draconian Internal Security Act.

20世纪70年代，他以伊斯兰党学生领袖成名，甚至曾经被残酷的《国内安全法》扣上罪名入狱。

When Arizona passed its draconian anti-immigration law, for example, Mr Perry said this was “not the right direction for Texas” .

比方说，当亚利桑纳州通过了其苛刻的反移民法案时，帕里声明这对德州来说不是正确的取向。

But they are expected to pick any controls carefully, wary of adopting draconian measures that would scare off foreign investors for good.

不过估计这些国家会小心选择控制措施，慎用严厉举措，以免可能永久性吓跑外资。

The draconian , decades-old state of emergency must be lifted and with it curbs on freedom of speech and assembly.

持续了几十年、严厉的紧急状态必须被解除，言论及集会自由才有可能被恢复。

But question are raised about the validity of the research and the ability to follow a draconian diet.

但人们对于研究的效度以及是否能够严格遵循那么苛刻的食谱尚存有异议。

But who wants to go back to the 1970s, when banking was all but frozen by draconian regulation?

但是谁又会希望回到上世纪70年代呢，银行业被严苛的规章制度牢牢束缚，无法施展拳脚。

Motivation isn’t about setting unrealistic goals and trying to force people to reach those goals through draconian rule.

动力并不是设置不切实际的目标，并且强迫人们通过严厉的规则到达那些目标。

impose such draconian cuts on states and lower-income families

对各州政府和低收入家庭强行实施如此苛刻的减支计划。

For the young women I met in Nanjing and Shanghai, even the draconian one-child policy of the last 30 years has an aspect of liberation.

对我在南京和上海遇到的年轻女性来说，即使过去三十年严厉的独生子女政策也是有着解放意义的一面的。

But the plan would, in fact, have led to draconian rationing.

而那个计划实际上会导致更无情的限量。

Alternatives such as runaway inflation or Draconian cuts in living standards have major, what shall we say, disadvantages.

而其他的做法，诸如放任通货膨胀或强制削减生活开支，就像我们所说的，都有严重的缺陷。

The busts lead to banking crises and draconian budget cuts that hurt the poor who depend on government programmes.

而在萧条期，则会出现银行业危机和大幅削减预算的行为，后者将伤害到那些依赖于政府项目的穷人。

Greater prosperity (and some draconian policies) is already leading to sharp falls in fertility.

更大的繁荣（和一些严厉的政策）已经导致了出生率快速下降。

It’s hard to see how copyright infringement warrants the same draconian response.

看看版权违反如何证明同样的回应是正当的，是很难的。

Kramer adopted his own draconian policies at Auschwitz and Belsen and, along with Irma Grese, he terrorized his prisoners without remorse.

克莱默在奥斯维辛和贝尔森采取自己的暴政，与艾尔玛·格瑞斯一起，他冷血的对待他的囚犯。

THE City of London Corporation fears draconian financial reforms that might drive banks and brokers elsewhere.

伦敦金融城政府担心严厉的金融改革会让银行和金融业经纪人另谋栖身之地。

The American State Department’s latest human-rights report reads like a menu for draconian rule.

美国国务院最近的人权报告就像一份酷刑名单。