flogging

英 [ˈflɒɡɪŋ]

美 [ˈflɑːɡɪŋ]

n. (作为惩罚的)鞭笞，棒打
v. 鞭笞，棒打(作为惩罚); 出售(某物给某人)
flog的现在分词

复数：floggings　现在分词：flogging　

BNC.22937 / COCA.28209

牛津词典

noun

（作为惩罚的）鞭笞，棒打
a punishment in which sb is hit many times with a whip or stick
1. a public flogging
  当众处以鞭刑

VERB 出售;卖掉
If someone tries toflogsomething, they try to sell it.
1. They are trying to flog their house.
  他们正试图卖掉房子。
VERB 鞭笞;棒打
If someoneis flogged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.
1. 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。
2. Flog them soundly.
  好好鞭打他们一顿。
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.

noun

beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
Synonym:whippingtanninglashingflagellation

Stop asking me. you're flogging a dead horse. I don't want to go and I've told you that a hundred times.
别问我了。你这样做是徒劳的。我不想去，已经告诉你一百遍了。
But for the next couple of years at least, it looks like Vale will have to be content with just flogging its iron to the Chinese rather than its shares.
不过看起来至少在未来两、三年内，淡水河谷将不得不满足于向中国出售铁矿石、而不是出售股票。
You are flogging a dead horse.
你是在白费力气。
It is enough for me to recall the flogging of peasants.
只要回忆起农民被鞭笞的事就叫我够受的了。
A whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners.
用缠绕在金属丝上的皮革制成的鞭子；用来鞭打囚犯。
It did not need the medium of a flogging to produce that effect on the master.
并不需要鞭笞，在主人身上就已经产生了挨打的效果。他试图从凯瑟琳手里夺来钥匙。
He was sentenced to receive a public flogging.
他被判处当众受鞭刑。
I'm not your master of flogging madwomen.
我不是鞭打疯女人的管家。
The punishment for breaking the rules is flogging.
违反这些规则应受的惩罚是鞭笞。
He received a good flogging.
他遭到一顿狠狠的鞭打。