口碑: public praise, public reputation, commonly held opinions, current idiom...
样本: sample, specimen...
刺耳: ear-piercing...
受苦: to suffer hardship...
棋子: chess piece, a pawn (used by others for their own purposes)...
傻: foolish...
按说: in the ordinary course of events, ordinarily, normally...
惩处: to punish, to administer justice...
痛苦: pain, suffering, painful...
反问: to ask (a question) in reply, to answer a question with a question, rhetorical question...