What does "under pain of death" mean? i saw this expression in the English edition of Little Prince.
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It's a threat. It means:
If you do that you will die.
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In this case, "pain" refers to "punishment". It's related to the French word "peine".
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看上面兄弟的链接, 觉得可以理解为 以....作为威胁
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=540225&langid=22 看看这个链接，你就明白了。
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