flogging

noun

1. （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

1. VERB 出售;卖掉
   If someone tries to flog something, they try to sell it.
   1. They are trying to flog their house.
      他们正试图卖掉房子。
2. VERB 鞭笞;棒打
   If someone is 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。
3. 做徒劳无益的事;白忙活
   If you say that someone is flogging a dead horse, you mean that they are trying to achieve something impossible.

1. Whatever The New Republic is today, it has been busy flogging its storied past.
   不管《新共和》如今变成了什么样，它仍在忙于利用自己传奇的过去。
2. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison.
   又有人忍受戏弄，鞭打，捆锁，监禁，各等的磨炼。
3. 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。
4. You are flogging a dead horse.
   你是在白费力气。
5. The human rights organisation Amnesty International condemned the sentence, describing flogging as a cruel punishment.
   对于加斯塔尼亚被判鞭刑，国际特赦组织表示谴责，认为这一惩罚很残酷。
6. Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.
   伪造支票可处以公开鞭刑，最多打100鞭。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. But not much has happened since-in part because of public outrage at scare stories about flogging the Colosseum.
   但自那以后，情况并未改变多少，这部分是因为公众对批评罗马圆形大剧场的恐怖故事感到愤怒。
10. To punish, as by beating. Beating: Punishment by whipping or flogging.
    鞭打：惩罚，鞭笞惩罚。
11. You'll never persuade him! You're flogging a dead horse.
    你根本说服不了他，你是在白费口舌！
12. During boom years, when flogging stock was all but assured, clients moaned when paying the fees.
    在繁荣时期，当发行股票几乎万无一失时，客户在支付费用时会颇有怨言。
13. There's no sense flogging a dead horse.
    死马被鞭打是没有任何感觉的。
14. He was sentenced to receive a public flogging.
    他被判处当众受鞭刑。
15. As well as a high-touch service, they have a tradition of delivering advice to clients rather than simply flogging products to them.
    在人性化服务方面，他们有一种传统，即向客户提供建议，而不只是不断向客户推销产品。
16. He'll be all right. what's a flogging?
    他会没事的。鞭刑是什么？
17. 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。
18. You'll be flogging a dead horse if you keep trying to get Walter to make a contribution, you know mean he is.
    如果你坚持想要沃尔特作贡献的话，你会白费劲的，你知道他是极其吝啬的。
19. He received a good flogging.
    他遭到一顿狠狠的鞭打。
20. Flogging her guts out in london's worst record store.
    在伦敦最差劲的唱片店累得一塌糊涂。
21. The punishment for breaking the rules is flogging.
    违反这些规则应受的惩罚是鞭笞。
22. Would you sanction flogging as a punishment for crimes of violence?
    你赞许鞭打作为对暴力罪行的一种处罚吗？
23. 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。
24. You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.
    想劝他接受新思想根本不可能，他决对是个老顽固。
25. Violently urging on by whipping or flogging.
    通过鞭打来强烈的驱使。
26. I'm not your master of flogging madwomen.
    我不是鞭打疯女人的管家。
27. At that point, there's not much you can do about it& unless you were buried alive, but that's even more unpleasant than a posthumous flogging.
    就此来看，你办法不多-除非被活埋，但那比死后挨抽更令人不快。
28. So you're flogging them one by one?
    那你就能一个一个的打他们吗？
29. A strip of leather used in flogging.
    用来鞭打的一条皮革。
30. Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.
    这是因为房产开发商们并未将楼盘以折扣价出售，而是坐等消费者对房产需求的重新上涨，最终，这场空等让房屋成交量暴跌。

noun

1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

   Synonym:    whippingtanninglashingflagellation