And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

众人就一同起来攻击他们。官长吩咐剥了他们的衣裳，用棍打。

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Show off their talent, to show off his shrewd, but beat about the bush to laugh at other people stupid and incompetent.

炫耀自己的才华，卖弄自己的精明，只不过旁敲侧击地嘲笑别人愚钝和无能。——《叔本华人生哲学》。

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Liverpool haven't had the best start to the season, but even if we beat them it would be too early to write off their championship challenge.

利物浦本赛季开局不好，但就算我们击败了他们也不能过早的无视他们。

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The two parties had hoped that their superior organisation and finances would win them enough momentum in last Sunday's elections to help them beat off their common rival in the presidential vote on December 6th.

ECONOMIST: The colonel rides on

Later in Merton and Wandsworth, the Tories hit back again when their candidate Elizabeth Howlett beat off the opposition.

BBC: Tories and Labour tie GLA count

Officers who let peers be dispatched to time-intensive calls in their beat and minutes later came off of the call they were working, or who magically happened to drum up a car stop when dispatch was trying to send them to a call, were murmured about in the locker room.

FORBES: Q: What are some cultural faux pas in police departments?