| 单词 | flog |
| 释义 | flog /flɒɡ $ flɑːɡ/ verb (flogged, flogging) [transitive] 1 HITto beat a person or animal with a whip or stick 鞭打，棒打〔人、动物〕 He was publicly flogged and humiliated. 他当众受到鞭打和羞辱。2 informalSELL to sell something 出售，卖 I’m going to flog all my old video tapes. 我准备把旧录像带都卖掉。► see thesaurus at sell3. be flogging a dead horse spoken to be wasting time or effort by trying to do something that is impossible 浪费时间，徒劳，白费劲4 flog something to death British English informalREPEAT to repeat a story or use an idea etc so often that people become bored with it 令人厌烦地重复某事 They take a good idea and flog it to death. 他们有了一个好主意就会念叨个没完。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusflog• People caught breaking the liquor laws may be flogged.• The age-old argument that poverty breeds crime is again being flogged by social engineers.• He's been on a lot of TV shows, flogging his new book.• They must have been flogging it somewhere pretty regularly.• There was a man at the market who was flogging watches for £10 each.• Don't let him flog you his car -- he's had endless trouble with it.Origin flog (1600-1700) Perhaps from Latin flagellare “to whip”flog verbChinese or Corpus animal beat person a to with |
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