Speeding is a serious offence resulting in high fines.

超速行驶是严重的违规行为，会被严重罚款。

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Jail-birds often receive high fines, and adding to their debt might just encourage more crime.

囚犯经常支付高额罚款，增加他们的负债会导致更多的犯罪。

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It is hardly consistent with the concept of "user-friendly" banking to charge these high fines.

收取这么高的罚款跟银行方便顾客的概念很不一致。

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At the other extreme is a system of very high fines.

ECONOMIST: Free exchange: Fine and punishment | The

Anything lower reduces the expected cost of criminality, without doing anything to improve the probability of detection. (Treating whistleblowers leniently is consistent with this logic: letting them off punishment raises the odds of truth-telling, and therefore of detection.) There are plenty of arguments against ultra-high fines, however.

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Now the FSA wants to increase fine levels, claiming fines have not been high enough to deter wrongdoers.

BBC: FSA issued record fines in 2009