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

复数：floggings　现在分词：flogging　

机械

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
  1. a public flogging
     当众处以鞭刑

柯林斯词典

• VERB 出售;卖掉
  If someone tries toflogsomething, they try to sell it.
  1. They are trying to flog their house.
     他们正试图卖掉房子。
• VERB 鞭笞;棒打
  If someoneis flogged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.
  1. 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。
  2. Flog them soundly.
     好好鞭打他们一顿。
• 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
  Synonym:whippingtanninglashingflagellation

双语例句

• Flogging her guts out in london's worst record store.
  在伦敦最差劲的唱片店累得一塌糊涂。
• 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。
• He received a good flogging.
  他遭到一顿狠狠的鞭打。
• But for the next couple of years at least, it looks like Vale will have to be content with just flogging its iron to the Chinese rather than its shares.
  不过看起来至少在未来两、三年内，淡水河谷将不得不满足于向中国出售铁矿石、而不是出售股票。
• You'll never persuade him! You're flogging a dead horse.
  你根本说服不了他，你是在白费口舌！
• 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。
• The human rights organisation Amnesty International condemned the sentence, describing flogging as a cruel punishment.
  对于加斯塔尼亚被判鞭刑，国际特赦组织表示谴责，认为这一惩罚很残酷。
• There's no sense flogging a dead horse.
  死马被鞭打是没有任何感觉的。
• Stop asking me. you're flogging a dead horse. I don't want to go and I've told you that a hundred times.
  别问我了。你这样做是徒劳的。我不想去，已经告诉你一百遍了。
• He'll be all right. what's a flogging?
  他会没事的。鞭刑是什么？