1. On the last point, at least, tobacco's sternest foes might concur with the senator. 也许至少在最后一点，烟草最严苛的敌人会和这位参议员持相同意见。
2. When people want to inflict upon themselves the hardest punishment or put themselves to the sternest tests, they become hermits. 当人要给自己最重的惩罚，或是最严格的考验，他们就去当隐士。
3. As the most sternest and the most widely applicable measures of the custody, the pending custody in China has many problems in practice. 作为最为严厉、适用最为广泛的刑事强制措施之一，未决羁押制度在我国的刑事司法实践中出现了众多问题。
4. Absolutely no one gets away with a single act that causes any harm to another, and you will be the sternest judge of your own misdemeanours. 肯定的是没有人可以逃脱责罚，如果他造成对他人的伤害，而他将是自己行为最大的审判者。
5. Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; 沉默寡言的人常常要比性格爽朗的人更需要直率地讨论他们的感情和不幸，看似最严酷的禁欲主义者毕竟也是人。
