1. Tom says his mother uses him as the whipping boy at home. She's
an alcoholic and whenever his dad gets mad at her for getting drunk ，
she turns all her anger at him onto her son.湯姆說他母親把他當成家里的
受氣包，她母親是個酒鬼，每次他父親為他母親喝醉酒發火的時候，他母親就遷
怒于他。

    2. I hate the way the boss cracks the whip at us. Just now he said
： "From now on you have to submit a written slip to me before you take
more than an hour off. Without this ， I'll regard you as AWOL."我最討
厭老板對我們耍威風。他剛才說：“從現在開始，請假一小時以上的人事先都得
給我寫假條，不然我就作擅離職守（Absent Without Official Leave ）處理。”

    3. Will you make sure all the speakers are given a fair crack of the
whip in the debate？

    你能確保辯論中每位辯手都能得到均等的機會嗎？

    4. Everybody says Tony is smart as a whip. He knows exactly what he
can expect from the bureaucracy and how to get what he wants without the
usual delay or trouble. 大家都說托尼聰明靈活，他很了解官僚機構的辦事風
格，并且總能避免那些通常的拖拖拉拉和繁瑣手續來達到自己的目的。

    5. 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.老李先生把兒子和女
兒都安插在自己的廠里工作，卻從來不讓他們管事，因為他想在他活著的時候能
夠對子女有控制權。

    6. We had a whip-round for Annie's leaving present. 我們湊份子給安
妮買了離別禮物。

    7. With a lot of training ， we might be able to whip the team into
shape in time for next year's games.經過大量的訓練，我們或許能夠使這支
運動隊及時成形，以參加下一年的運動會。

    8. If you haven't heard about the Internet， you belong to the buggy-whip
age.要是你沒聽說過因特網，那你可真是大大落后于時代了。