flogged
英 [flɒɡd]
美 [flɑːɡd]
v. 鞭笞,棒打(作为惩罚); 出售(某物给某人)
flog的过去分词和过去式
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.
双语例句
- That idea has been absolutely flogged to death.
那个主意绝对是老生常谈了。 - Criminals used to be flogged as a punishment.
罪犯过去常常受到鞭刑。 - Punishment on the old sailing ships was so severe that it was possible for a sailor to be flogged to death for quite a small fault.
旧时航海的处罚十分严厉,船员可能困为一个小小的过失被鞭打致死。 - For her trespass, my daughter will be flogged.
我女儿犯了错,她将得到棍刑。 - You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues.
但你们要谨慎,因为人要把你们交给公会,并且你们在会堂里要受鞭打; - The boy was cruelly flogged for stealing.
那男孩偷东西挨了一顿毒打。 - Before the revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged, women had been forced to work in the coal mines, children had been sold into the factories at the age of six.
革命前,无产者受到资本家残酷的压迫,他们挨饿挨揍,女人也不得不在煤矿里面做苦工,孩子六岁就给卖到工厂去。 - The joke has been flogged to death.
这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。 - Oh, mein gott! Not again! Who keeps meddling with that fusebox? When I find out I will have him flogged.
喔,我的老天!不要又来了!到底是谁一直把保险丝搞断?被我抓到我一定毒打他一顿。 - They could order you to be flogged with something called a cat-o '-nine tails.
他们可以叫人用九尾鞭打你们。