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.
  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.

双语例句

• The joke has been flogged to death.
  这个笑话已经说得令人生腻了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That idea has been absolutely flogged to death.
  那个主意绝对是老生常谈了。
• Criminals used to be flogged as a punishment.
  罪犯过去常常受到鞭刑。
• 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。
• 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。
• The suspect was flogged into confession.
  嫌疑犯被鞭打而承认。