self-flagellation

常见例句

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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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。
I mention these mistakes not so much to beat up on myself -- I haven't found self-flagellation a useful investment technique -- as to illustrate an important investment lesson.
我所说的这些错误并没有把我伤得太重——我不觉得自责是一种有效的投资技巧——我把这些都作为重要的投资教训。

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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