flagellation

常见例句

These prices have prompted many people in the industry to feats of rhetorical self-flagellation.
這些價格促使許多業內人士發表了自我鞭撻的精彩言論。
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As the special report in thisissue describes, plans for the end of the fossil-fuel economy are now beinglaid and they do not involve much self-flagellation.
正如本期襍志特別報道裡麪所描寫的，化石燃料經濟結束後的方案正在提出，人們也不必再承受太多的自我譴責。
Nor is inflicting pain to achieve purification restricted to the afterlife. Self-flagellation is reckoned by many here on Earth to be, literally, good for the soul.
不是所有爲了淨化的痛苦都要等到死後（下地獄），像自我鞭打就被認爲是塵世間對霛魂有好処的方法。

Self-flagellation over global warming sins is all the rage these days, and high-tech is no exception.
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Sadly this has become an expected part of the self-flagellation we put ourselves through as a sector.
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It may be mad, but it is somehow an expected part of the ritual of reconstruction and self-flagellation.
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