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

• 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。
• 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。
• Whatever The New Republic is today, it has been busy flogging its storied past.
  不管《新共和》如今变成了什么样，它仍在忙于利用自己传奇的过去。
• I'm not your master of flogging madwomen.
  我不是鞭打疯女人的管家。
• As well as a high-touch service, they have a tradition of delivering advice to clients rather than simply flogging products to them.
  在人性化服务方面，他们有一种传统，即向客户提供建议，而不只是不断向客户推销产品。
• There's no sense flogging a dead horse.
  死马被鞭打是没有任何感觉的。
• 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。
• Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
  你赞许鞭打作为对暴力罪行的一种处罚吗？
• 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。
• 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。