Lambasting a horse thief with a riding crop

用马鞭抽打盗马贼

||1:This irks many, however.||2:“Soho is the last ramshackle area of the old soot-stained, post-war London,” says Rupert Everett, an actor who has campaigned for the rights of sex workers.||3:“Once that turns into a cascade of glass, then London is gone,” he sighs.||4:After the closure of Madame Jojo's a campaign group, Save Soho, was set up; around 9,000 people have signed a petition lambasting the change of “once proud centres of subculture” into “identikit high-end boutiques”.||5:Pete Townshend, a musician, has argued that Denmark Street should be made into a “heritage zone”.

||1:然而这一举动却引起各方怨言。||2:“苏活区是旧式烟色战后伦敦的最后残影，” 鲁伯特埃弗雷特说，他是曾身体力行支持性工作者的演员。||3:“一旦这里变成了各式样玻璃窗，那么伦敦也就不复存在了，”他感叹道。||4:在乔乔女士的一个活动团体的没落之后，拯救苏活区，崛起了；近9000人已签署了请愿书，抗议把“曾经骄傲的文化中心”变作了“尽是广告人物海报的高端精品店。”||5:音乐家皮特汤森坚持认为，丹麦街应该被建成一个“遗产区”。

||1:The Americans are sometimes led around empty Potemkin bases and entertained with Kung Fu shows rather than genuine drills.||2:They wonder why they should waste their time on such junkets, which offer little insight into Chinese intentions or how the two sides might defuse a crisis.||3:When senior officers of the two sides meet, the Chinese tend to spend much of the time lambasting American foreign policy rather than discussing how to build trust.

||1:有时，美国人会被带到波坦金基地，以功夫表演取乐而不是真正的军演。||2:他们不知为何浪费时间在这种旅游上，这对了解中方意图、双方如何化解危机并无助力。||3:高级官员会面时，倾向花大量时间抨击外交政策，而不是讨论如何建立信任。

||1:Sometimes they succeed. In 2012 Julia Gillard, Australia’s prime minister, gave her renowned “misogyny speech”, lambasting her rival Tony Abbott for referring to Ms Gillard “making an honest woman of herself”, and for posing by a sign reading “ditch the witch”.||2:Traditionalists pounced; Mr Abbott didn’t hate all women, they said, so Ms Gillard obviously didn’t know what misogyny meant.||3:In response, Macquarie, an Australian dictionary publisher, expanded its definition of the word to include “entrenched prejudice against women”.

||1:有时确实成功地这样做了。2012年，澳大利亚总理朱莉娅?吉拉德发表了著名的“厌女演讲”，痛斥竞争对手托尼?阿博特称吉拉德“让自己成为一个诚实的女人”，并在一个写着“抛弃女巫”的标牌前摆造型。||2:传统主义者出击了；他们称艾伯特并不憎恨所有女性，所以吉拉德显然不知道厌女症是什么意思。||3:作为回应，澳大利亚词典出版商麦格理将这个词的定义扩大到“对女性根深蒂固的偏见”。

Mr Karzai seems to have stopped lambasting Pakistan for tolerating sanctuaries within its borders for Taliban insurgents.

巴基斯坦在巴-阿边界为塔利班分子提供避难场所，卡尔扎伊似乎对此不闻不问。

Ron Paul, an outside Republican contender, has been lambasting the Federal Reserve for years over its easy money policies.

多年来，外部共和党竞选人罗恩•保罗（RonPaul）一直在痛斥美联储（FED），指责其宽松的货币政策。

One Russian billionaire, after lambasting the "emerging" label as insulting, suggests using "high-growth economy" instead.

一个俄罗斯亿万富翁在指责“新兴”的标签是侮辱之后，建议使用“高速增长的经济体”来代替。