他是那种会在背后给你下毒手的人。

He is the sort of man to stab you in the back.

他为了完成***的幻想而对一家人痛下毒手。

He butchers whole families to fulfill some sick fantasy.

我们祖先的天主复活了你们下毒手悬在木架上的耶稣。

The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death, hanging him upon a tree.

一只狼瞧见一只迷路失群的小羊，决定暂缓下毒手，想先找一些理由，对小羊证明自己有吃它的权利。

THE E WOLF AND THE LAMBA Wolf meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his right to eat him.

但是，当下最常见的一种折磨，却是母亲对自己挚爱的女儿痛下毒手。这种现象远比水刑和电击更为普遍。

But one of the most common forms of torture in the modern world, incomparably more widespread than waterboarding or electric shocks, is inflicted by mothers on daughters they love.