Before I die I must not forget that I have my executioners to punish, and perhaps, too, who knows, some friends to reward

我不能死，在死以前，我还有几个仇人要去惩罚，谁知道呢，也许还有几个朋友要报答呢。

What authority, or call I had, to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunish’d, to go on, and to be as it were, the executioners of his judgments one upon another.

我想:这么多世纪以来,上天都容许这些人不断互相残杀而不惩罚他们,那我有什么权力和责任擅自将他们判罪处死,代替上天执行对他们的判决呢?

scaffold, executioners , victims, all had disappeared; only the people remained, full of noise and excitement

一切都不见了--断头台，刽子手，尸体，一切都不见了，剩下的只是人群，到处都是嘈杂而兴奋的人群。

What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justice and the king, is that an innocent man should languish in prison, the victim of an infamous denunciation, to die here cursing his executioners .“

真正重要的是，一个清白无辜的人，不该是一次卑鄙的告密的牺牲品，不该就这样一直咒骂着他的刽子手而老死在狱中，这不仅关系到我这个不幸的犯人，还关系到司法长官，更关系到统治我们的国王。”

||1:“Bloodlands” has aroused fierce criticism from those who believe that the Soviet Union, for all its flaws, cannot be compared to the Third Reich, which pioneered ethnic genocide.||2:Doing this, the critics argue, legitimises ultranationalists in eastern Europe who downplay the Holocaust, exaggerate their own suffering—and dodge guilt for their own collaboration with Hitler’s executioners .

||1:“血染之地”已经激起了一些人的激烈批评，这些人认为苏联即使有千般缺点，也比不上第三帝国的罪恶，后者是种族屠杀的先锋。||2:批评者认为，这种做法将使东欧的极端民族主义者合法化，这些极端分子漠视大屠杀，夸大自身遭受的苦难---而不愿直面他们与希特勒的刽子手们勾结的罪行。

“Gentlemen, I wish you luck, ” he said to his executioners .

“先生们，祝你们好运，”他对行刑者说。

Prague has enough folktales of axe-wielding executioners , vengeful phantoms and the sub-human Golem to thrill a child’s bedtime for years.

挥舞斧头的刽子手、复仇的幻影，以及希伯来神化中类似人类的假人，布拉格有足够的民间传说，多年来，它们让孩子们在睡梦中发抖。

Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners , lay dead in Milan (see below).

墨索里尼死在了米兰（如下），被意大利游击队员用枪从脑后射穿了头部。

Mr Putin has expressed sympathy for the victims of Katyn. But he has not publicly condemned their executioners .

普京对卡廷惨案的受害者表示同情，但是没有公开谴责杀害他们的刽子手。

A change in technique for the world’s busiest executioners ?

世上最忙的行刑人的技术变化？

the faces of witnesses and executioners could be edited out, for privacy reasons, before a video was released.

为了隐私的考虑，证人和死刑执行者的脸在视频播出前可进行编辑。

The danger now is that the gloating of his Shia executioners will make him into a martyr for the Sunni cause.

现在的危险就在于，那些什叶派死刑执行者的沾沾自喜，会把他塑造成逊尼派事业的一位烈士。

War has a way of implicating everyone in its wide reach, turning them into victims and executioners , often at the same time.

战争以其广泛的影响力牵连着每一个人，经常在同一时间，把人们变成受害者和刽子手。

Support: Today’s managers need to be coaches, counselors, and colleagues instead of watchdogs or executioners .

支持：当今的经理人要成为教练、顾问和同志，而非检察员或刽子手。