| 释义 |
on (or under) pain ofThe penalty for disobedience or shortcoming being: they proscribed all such practices on pain of death...- This effectively prevents the authority from supporting any other cinema site under pain of financial penalty.
- A 15-year deal will have certain conditions which must be fulfilled on pain of penalties being imposed.
- They could disobey orders only on pain of death.
See parent entry: pain |