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She faces a public lashing or up to six months in prison if found guilty on charges of blasphemy.
如果她被认为对亵渎有所悔意, 她面临的判刑可能是公开鞭打或者监禁最长达6个月.
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.
由于奥巴马总统在行动上没有相应左翼的要求，这导致他被猛烈抨击为只关注自己而不关心人民死活的“伪善”的演讲家。
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?
不是愤怒地猛烈抨击、恐惧地让步或盲目地纵容一个一闪而过的欲望，反之你有机会对自己说：“这是我正在感觉到的情绪，我该如何回应？”

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.