In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations .
你激愤践踏全地,你怀怒打碎列国。
It was difficult to obtain clean grain when the crop was threshed .
打谷时,很难得到干净的谷粒。
Translators may well agree with george steiner 's observation that " ninety percent of all translation is inadequate , " but only as an acknowledgment that , once threshed into a different language , a piece of writing is transformed , changed , not as a measure of the quality of our work .
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument , neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff , and the cummin with a rod .