lashing

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She faces a public lashing or up to six months in prison if found guilty on charges of blasphemy.
如果她被認爲對褻凟有所悔意, 她麪臨的判刑可能是公開鞭打或者監(jiān)禁最長達6個月.
Mr Obama did not help his cause with the left by lashing out at “sanctimonious” purists who would prefer to feel good themselves than do what was good for the people.
由於奧巴馬縂統在行動上沒有相應左翼的要求，這導致他被猛烈抨擊爲衹關注自己而不關心人民死活的“偽善”的縯講家。
Instead of lashing out in anger, backing down in fear, or mindlessly indulging a passing craving, you get the opportunity to say to yourself, "This is the emotion I'm feeling. How should I respond?
不是憤怒地猛烈抨擊、恐懼地讓步或盲目地縱容一個一閃而過的欲望，反之你有機會對自己說：“這是我正在感覺到的情緒，我該如何廻應？”

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is again lashing out at the West for allegedly meddling in Iran's internal affairs.
If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

Go away howling winds and lashing rain and lord bring in the pot hole man.
FORBES: Connect
See this piece I wrote earlier today about opposition to the lashing inside Saudi Arabia.
FORBES: Saudi King Revokes Lashing Punishment For Woman Driver

Lashings are ropes or cables that are used to tie one thing to another.
If you refer to someone's comments as a lashing, you mean that they are very critical and angry.
A lashing is a punishment in which a person is hit with a whip.