1·He tried to crack the whip, but it was of no use.
他试著挥那鞭子，但是无济于事。
2·OK, you'd better get back to work unless you want me to crack the whip and start yelling at you.
好了，你最好回去工作了，除非你要我开始狠狠地对你吼。
3·The American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who has so far done little to crack the whip for peace, has offered, at long last, to enter the fray as ringmistress for the first act.
迄今为止，美国国务卿康多莉扎·赖斯（Condoleezza Rice）几乎没有为和平进程积极奔走过，但最终她已表示愿意作为第一幕的导演（ringmistress）介入双方冲突。
4·I felt we weren't given a fair crack of the whip.
我觉得我们没有得到合理的机会。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·Crack! Went the whip.
啪！鞭子一挥。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
6·Such fly-bys give spacecraft a whip-crack of extra speed【3】 on their tour through the solar system.
在太阳系中漫游的宇宙飞船当其靠近地球作低空飞越时，会加上一个额外速度。
7·His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
他的声音仍然保持着一点像往常那样冷静而缓慢的调子，但是她能感觉到里面尽力压抑着的那股凶暴劲儿，那股像抽响的鞭子一样残忍的劲儿。
8·Ah, how they made them skip and lift their heels at the very first crack of the whip!
唉！他们怎样地使得幽魂们一受到第一鞭就提起腿来了啊！