beatings

英 [ˈbiːtɪŋz]

美 [ˈbitɪŋz]

n.  狠打; 揍; 笞打; 惨败; 严重受挫; 有规律的敲打(声); 有节奏的运动(声)
beating的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （尤指用棍子等进行的）殴打，痛打
  If someone is given abeating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
  1. ...the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers...
     白人警察对一名黑人驾车者的野蛮殴打。
  2. The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
     这个小组搞到了一些显示囚犯有被毒打痕迹的照片。
• N-SING （竞争或选举中的）大败，惨败
  If something such as a business, a political party, or a team takesa beating, it is defeated by a large amount in a competition or election.
  1. Our firm has taken a terrible beating in recent years.
     我们公司近几年败得一塌糊涂。
• PHRASE 难以被超越
  If you say that something willtake some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made.
  1. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
     单从规模和气势来说，肯特的利兹城堡独领风骚。

双语例句

• There were fatal confrontations between fellow prisoners, guard beatings, and failed escapes off the island.
  在这里，囚犯之间有严重的冲突，狱警实施暴力，许多失败的越狱事件。
• Beatings, floggings, and "accidental" shootings of natives were common.
  殴打、鞭笞和“意外”射杀当地人的事件很常见。
• Is that public beatings like this rarely happen. oh, god.
  就是这种公众斗殴很少发生，噢，上帝。
• Black residents were given little opportunity to register to vote, and those who tried were subjected to intimidation, beatings and economic retaliation.
  当时黑人居民几乎得不到机会去登记投票，而那些试图去投票的人则遭到恐吓、殴打和经济上的报复。
• I also have a large tumor in my brain from beatings.
  我同时在脑部也有个起因于受打击产生的巨大肿瘤。
• She began counting them, remarking that they were much slower than the beatings of her heart;
  那只钟是有秒针的，她开始数秒针的走动，她发现秒针的摆动比自己的心跳要慢得多。
• I still have medical problems from the beatings.
  因为遭到殴打，我到现在仍需要就医。
• How many times he had been beaten, how long the beatings had continued, he could not remember.
  他给打过多少次、每次拷打多久，他都记不得了。
• At least 300 have died from starvation, dehydration and beatings, according to the UN.
  联合国（UN）称，至少有300人死于饥饿、脱水和毒打。
• They suffered beatings and other cruelties.
  他们挨打并受到其他残酷折磨。