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
- Until the 1980s some criminals were still flogged with a rattan cane as a punishment.
直到20世纪80年代,有些罪犯仍被处以笞刑。 - 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。 - That idea has been absolutely flogged to death.
那个主意绝对是老生常谈了。 - A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to be flogged for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.
一名妇女因违反本国对女性司机的禁令,沙特阿拉伯法院对其判决处以鞭刑。 - She flogged her guitar to another student.
她把吉他卖给另一个同学。 - 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。 - In the pat, the poor people were often flogged by the landowners.
过去,穷人常遭受地主的鞭挞。 - 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。 - The joke has been flogged to death.
这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。 - In ancient Greece, runners took off from a standing position and were flogged if they started too soon.
在古希腊,跑步选手以立姿起跑,如果起跑过早会遭鞭打。