'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity.

'是啊，我们要您一定保证严守秘密，这会很自然地引起注您的好奇心。

It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me.

这使我感到不安，似乎整个晚上都是一个圈套，强使我也付出一份相应的感情。

" There's a price this republic exacts from any Black man or woman walking, " Baldwin asserts, " and that is a crime."

鲍德温断言，“这个共和国会让任何走在路上的黑人男女付出代价，那是一种犯罪。”

They exacted from their subordinates the last ounce of attention and energy and they rewarded generously everybody who served them well.

他们从下属那里索取最后一点注意力和精力， 并慷慨地奖励为他们服务的每个人。

" Is such the faith that Cora Munro would exact from her protector" ? said the young man, smiling mournfully, but with bitterness.

“Cora Munro 会从她的保护者那里索取这种信念吗”？年轻人悲哀地笑着说，但带着苦涩。

To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.

在街上与他搏斗，或向他索取比他最好的心血还低的报偿，都是徒劳和有辱人格的。

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.

在一个人生前应承担的职责和死后应承担的职责之间， 土地已不再是一种利润或一种乐趣。

Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.

约雅敬将金银给法老，遵着法老的命向国民征取金银，按着各人的力量派定，索要金银，好给法老尼哥。