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
- The suspect was flogged into confession.
嫌疑犯被鞭打而承认。 - 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。 - Many black slaves were flogged to death for quite a small fault.
许多黑奴因一点很小的过失而被鞭打致死。 - 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。 - 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; - 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。 - The joke has been flogged to death.
这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。 - In the pat, the poor people were often flogged by the landowners.
过去,穷人常遭受地主的鞭挞。 - Criminals used to be flogged as a punishment.
罪犯过去常常受到鞭刑。