flogging
英 [ˈflɒɡɪŋ]
美 [ˈflɑːɡɪŋ]
n. (作为惩罚的)鞭笞，棒打
v. 鞭笞，棒打(作为惩罚); 出售(某物给某人)
flog的现在分词
BNC.22937 / COCA.28209
牛津词典
noun
- （作为惩罚的）鞭笞，棒打
a punishment in which sb is hit many times with a whip or stick- a public flogging
当众处以鞭刑
- a public flogging
柯林斯词典
- VERB 出售;卖掉
If someone tries toflogsomething, they try to sell it.- They are trying to flog their house.
他们正试图卖掉房子。
- They are trying to flog their house.
- VERB 鞭笞;棒打
If someoneis flogged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.- In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death...
在这些地方，人们忍饥挨饿，遭受鞭打，甚至会被乱棍打死。 - Flog them soundly.
好好鞭打他们一顿。
- In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death...
- 做徒劳无益的事;白忙活
If you say that someoneis flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible.
英英释义
noun
- beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
双语例句
- He received a good flogging.
他遭到一顿狠狠的鞭打。 - You are flogging a dead horse.
你是在白费力气。 - Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.
伪造支票可处以公开鞭刑，最多打100鞭。 - It is enough for me to recall the flogging of peasants.
只要回忆起农民被鞭笞的事就叫我够受的了。 - There's no sense flogging a dead horse.
死马被鞭打是没有任何感觉的。 - Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison.
又有人忍受戏弄，鞭打，捆锁，监禁，各等的磨炼。 - To punish, as by beating. Beating: Punishment by whipping or flogging.
鞭打：惩罚，鞭笞惩罚。 - I'm not your master of flogging madwomen.
我不是鞭打疯女人的管家。 - You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.
想劝他接受新思想根本不可能，他决对是个老顽固。 - At that point, there's not much you can do about it& unless you were buried alive, but that's even more unpleasant than a posthumous flogging.
就此来看，你办法不多-除非被活埋，但那比死后挨抽更令人不快。