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
- For her trespass, my daughter will be flogged.
我女儿犯了错,她将得到棍刑。 - 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。 - Let's change the subject and talk about something else. We've flogged this to-pic to death.
让我们改变话题吧,谈些别的事情。我们对这个话题已不感兴趣了。 - 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。 - After breakfast his aunt took him aside, and Tom almost brightened in the hope that he was going to be flogged;
早饭过后,汤姆被姨妈叫到一边,他面带喜色满以为希望就要实现:挨鞭笞。 - His majesty wants her flogged, and at once.
陛下想让她收鞭打,马上实行。 - Convicts were mercilessly flogged in australia's early days.
早先在澳大利亚,人们无情地抽打犯人。 - That idea has been absolutely flogged to death.
那个主意绝对是老生常谈了。 - They ensured good behaviour by having miscreants publicly flogged.
确保运动员们行为得体,并对犯规者施以公开鞭打。 - It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
为了长出一层新皮来代替在学期中被鞭打掉的一层,我常常要养上整个假期。