1. These prices have prompted many people in the industry 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。
2. They need not be engaged in self-flagellation to prove to you or anyone else that they are in the act of improving. 他们不必忙于自我鞭策以向你或任何人证明他们正在改进。
3. They are not about to engage in mutual flagellation. The new rules will not be retrospective, and many sanctions will not bite until 2013. 它们可不准备互相鞭挞，新规则并没有追溯力，很多制裁要到2013年才实施。
4. 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。
5. As the special report in this issue describes, plans for the end of the fossil-fuel economy are now being laid and they do not involve much self-flagellation. 如在这期的特别报告中描述的那样，为化石燃料经济结束的计划已经提上日程并且没有太多的自相矛盾。
