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 was sentenced to receive a public flogging.
他被判处当众受鞭刑。 - A whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners.
用缠绕在金属丝上的皮革制成的鞭子；用来鞭打囚犯。 - 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。 - 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。 - I'm not your master of flogging madwomen.
我不是鞭打疯女人的管家。 - The punishment for breaking the rules is flogging.
违反这些规则应受的惩罚是鞭笞。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - You are flogging a dead horse.
你是在白费力气。