flagellation

基本解释

These prices have prompted many people in the industry to feats of rhetorical self-flagellation.
这些价格促使许多业内人士发表了自我鞭挞的精彩言论。
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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.
正如本期杂志特别报道里面所描写的，化石燃料经济结束后的方案正在提出，人们也不必再承受太多的自我谴责。
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.
不是所有为了净化的痛苦都要等到死后（下地狱），像自我鞭打就被认为是尘世间对灵魂有好处的方法。

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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Flagellation is the act of beating yourself or someone else, usually as a religious punishment.