Old Mr.Lee put his son and daughter to work in the factory he owned but he never let them have any responsibility because he wanted to hold the whip hand over them as long as he lived.

老先生把儿子和女儿都安插在自己的厂里工作，却从来不让他们负主管责任，因为他想只要自己活一天就得对子女有一天的控制权。

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"No," the judge answered kindly with a smile, "you see I don't have my whip in my hand."

“不是的﹐”鬼法官和气地带著微笑回答﹐“你看我并没有带我的鞭子来。”

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We continue to hear that even so, independents have the whip hand in electoral politics and we tend to assume that they are middling in their views, open to argument, and rather homogeneous.

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