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。 - Bankia, for example, flogged its shares to its retail savers, who will lose in a writedown.
比如bankia就将其股票转移给个人储户,后者将在减记过程中遭受损失。 - The boy was cruelly flogged for stealing.
那男孩偷东西挨了一顿毒打。 - She flogged her guitar to another student.
她把吉他卖给另一个同学。 - The joke has been flogged to death.
这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。 - That idea has been absolutely flogged to death.
那个主意绝对是老生常谈了。 - 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。 - 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。 - The news is about a woman journalist in Saudi Arabia who talked about extramarital intercourse in the TV show with her colleague, would be flogged.
新闻是关于一个沙特阿拉伯的女记者,她和同事在电视节目上大谈婚外性,将受到鞭打。 - 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。
