It’smuch like a sadistic husband beating his wife, all the while voicing his regretover what her actions are making him do.

这颇有点像一位残酷成性的丈夫一边痛打她的妻子，一边又懊恼说是她的行为让他不得不打她。

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It was for nothing that the drunk husband gave his wife a beating.

无缘无故，那位醉酒的丈夫就打了妻子一顿。（目的状语）

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Husband: I want the neighbors to see that I am not beating my wife.

丈夫：我想让邻居看到我没有打老婆。

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Saima's unemployed husband used to take out his anger on his wife by beating her.

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Best of all, eight years later, her husband is still beating the odds.

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According to Ms Rajab the back injury dates from a beating her husband sustained at the hands of the police in 2005.

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