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
- 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。 - 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。 - You are flogging a dead horse.
你是在白费力气。 - He received a good flogging.
他遭到一顿狠狠的鞭打。 - 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。 - To punish, as by beating. Beating: Punishment by whipping or flogging.
鞭打：惩罚，鞭笞惩罚。 - 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！ - Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.
这是因为房产开发商们并未将楼盘以折扣价出售，而是坐等消费者对房产需求的重新上涨，最终，这场空等让房屋成交量暴跌。 - A strip of leather used in flogging.
用来鞭打的一条皮革。 - 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。