Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders;laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.

• 这位新教和清教的牧师，时常一边对自己苦笑，一边鞭打自己的肩膀，而随着那苦笑，就鞭打得更加无情。