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。

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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。

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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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