1.That in turn caused an estimated loss of $100m to the company's investors, which prompted the extremely stiff sentence.
如此一来,公司投资者的损失达约1亿美元,他也因此得到非常严厉的判决。
2.The criminal was given a stiff sentence of fifteen years.
那名罪犯被采重判处十五年徒刑。