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
- 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。 - 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。 - And we'll be out all night getting flogged.
要整晚在外面被他们痛打。 - She flogged her guitar to another student.
她把吉他卖给另一个同学。 - 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。 - The joke has been flogged to death.
这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。 - The boy was cruelly flogged for stealing.
那男孩偷东西挨了一顿毒打。 - Criminals used to be flogged as a punishment.
罪犯过去常常受到鞭刑。 - 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。 - He said only one in10 of computer retailers in Moscow flogged legitimate software, adding that the situation in other regions was even worse.
他表示在莫斯科地区只有1/10的零售商在销售合法软件,而国内其它地区的情况则更为糟糕。