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。

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。

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。