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单词 flog
释义
flogflog /flɒɡ $ flɑːɡ/ verb (past tense and past participle flogged, present participle flogging) [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINflog
Origin:
1600-1700 Perhaps from Latin flagellare ‘to whip’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
flog
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyflog
he, she, itflogs
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyflogged
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave flogged
he, she, ithas flogged
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad flogged
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill flog
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have flogged
Continuous Form
PresentIam flogging
he, she, itis flogging
you, we, theyare flogging
PastI, he, she, itwas flogging
you, we, theywere flogging
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been flogging
he, she, ithas been flogging
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been flogging
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be flogging
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been flogging
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Don't let him flog you his car -- he's had endless trouble with it.
  • He's been on a lot of TV shows, flogging his new book.
  • People caught breaking the liquor laws may be flogged.
  • There was a man at the market who was flogging watches for £10 each.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • The age-old argument that poverty breeds crime is again being flogged by social engineers.
  • They must have been flogging it somewhere pretty regularly.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
to give something to someone in exchange for money: · He sold his motorcycle.· The shop sells old furniture.· Do you sell books on gardening?
to send goods to another country to be sold: · Which countries export oil to the United States?
to buy and sell a particular type of goods as part of your business: · He deals in antiques.
to make something available to be bought: · When the painting was first put up for sale, no one thought that it would be worth so much money.· The farm was put up for sale.
British English to sell your house or your business so that you can move to a different place or do something different: · They’re thinking of selling up and moving to Canada.
to sell things at a special event to the person who offers the most money: · The contents of his home will be auctioned.
British English informal to sell something, especially something that is of low quality: · A man at the market was flogging £10 watches.
to sell cheap things in the street. Also used about selling illegal drugs and pornography: · Street vendors peddled American and British cigarettes.· People who peddle drugs to children should be severely punished.
to buy and sell large quantities of illegal goods or people: · They trafficked in illegal weapons.· The gang were involved in people-trafficking.· drug-trafficking
Longman Language Activatorto hit someone as a punishment
to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped.
to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't.
to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating.
to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think?
the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used.
to sell something
to give something to someone in exchange for money: · Tom's thinking of selling his motorcycle and buying a new one.· If you can, wait to sell until prices are high.· Postcards and souvenirs were being sold outside the cathedral.sell somebody something: · The company sold Braugh $100,000 worth of computers at discounted rates.sell something to somebody: · It is illegal to sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 18.· The painting was sold to an art gallery in Philadelphia.sell something for £250/$50 etc: · The antique buttons are very valuable, and we sell them for £100 and upwards.
to sell something, usually a group of things, at a reduced price in order to get rid of it quickly, because you need the money soon, or because it will not last a long time: sell something off: · The bakery usually sells its cakes off at half price just before closing time.sell off something: · After the funeral the house contents were sold off quickly to pay all his debts.· The school district may be forced to close schools and sell off land in order to make much-needed repairs.
if a country or a company exports its products, it sends them to another country in order to sell them: · Japanese televisions and hi-fi systems are exported all over the world.· Ancient artefacts cannot be exported.export something to France/the UK/Japan etc: · In 1986 they exported 210,000 cases of wine to the UK.
British to sell your house, your business, or other things you own in order to move to a different place or to do something different: · Why don't we sell up and move to Canada? Property is really cheap there!· My parents sold up the farm and went to live in Glasgow.
if someone who works in a shop or a bar serves a customer, they help them to buy or choose the goods that they want: · There was a line of people in front of me who were all waiting to be served.· Estrada was serving a customer when the fire started.· It is illegal to serve alcoholic drinks to anyone under 18.
to buy and sell a particular kind of goods as part of your business: · The gallery deals mostly in paintings but they do sometimes sell photographs.· Tax agents are visiting more than 5,000 businesses that deal in expensive items such as cars, boats, and jewels.
when something is sold: · The rebels are using money from the sale of drugs to buy weapons.· The law prohibits the sale and consumption of alcohol on unlicensed premises.
British informal to sell something, especially something that is of low quality or that has something wrong with it: · There was a man at the market who was flogging watches for £10 each.flog somebody something: · Don't let him flog you his car -- he's had endless trouble with it.
to sell goods, usually things that are cheap, especially by going from place to place rather than selling them in a shop: · Street vendors peddled flowers and candles.· Belloni started her bakery business by peddling her homemade bread to local stores.
the activity of selling goods or shares in companies: · Trading started briskly on the New York Stock Exchange this morning.stop/cease trading: · The company ran out of money and was forced to cease trading.
to do something too much
to do something with too much effort, so that you do not get the result you want: · You're hitting the ball too hard.· I think you've been working too hard - you need a rest· Many parents try too hard to engineer a safe environment for their child, with disastrous results.
especially spoken to do or say something too much, especially to do too much work or exercise: · You need more exercise, but be careful not to overdo it.· The tour guide managed to be funny and informative, without overdoing it.
to get too angry or too worried when something happens which is not in fact very serious: · Don't you think you're overreacting a little? I'm only ten minutes late.overreact to: · I think people have overreacted to the advertisement - we didn't intend of offend anyone.
to do something so much or to such a great degree that you offend, upset, or annoy people, especially because you do not know when it is reasonable to stop: · Officials were worried that the Chairman's criticisms had gone too far.· John had taken the joke too far and now Betty was crying.go too far/take sth too far in doing something: · We all agree there have to be some controls, but the government has gone too far in ordering all immigration to be stopped.
to do something so much, state something so strongly etc, that people consider your actions unacceptable and unreasonable: · Hunt went to such extremes to get his promotion that everyone at the office hates him now.· You don't have to go to extremes to become healthier - a little exercise and slight changes to your diet can work wonders.
if you do something to excess , you do it so much that it is wrong or harmful: · The government enthusiastically supports US foreign policy, sometimes to excess.· He drank to excess, occasionally causing scenes in front of CIA officials.
something you say or do that is over the top is extreme, so that it is either very funny and entertaining, or very annoying or offensive: · Some of his remarks about women were really over the top.· The show was supposed to be a kind of over-the-top satire - it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously.go over the top: · The movie's drawn-out finale goes over the top in its attempt to keep the audience in suspense.
to give someone too much work to do or try to make a system handle too much work: · We can't take money from a school system that is already overloaded.· They overloaded the computer system, and the whole thing just stopped.· Projects should stretch people and make them work hard, but not overload them.
use this humorously when you have eaten too much rich food or drunk too much alcohol: · Schneider told quite a funny story about how he had overindulged one night.· What's the point of a vacation, after all, if not to overindulge yourself?
British informal to talk too much about a subject or repeat a joke or story too often, so that no one is interested in it any more: · It was a good story a month ago, but the newspapers have really flogged it to death.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?· Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
· This is a dead draw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.· They seem to be flogging a dead horse.· Glitter is Dot Cotton in foot-thick panstick, flogging a dead horse until its bones are a pile of dust.· If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
  • They seem to be flogging a dead horse.
  • It was a good story a month ago, but the newspapers have really flogged it to death.
  • The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?
1to beat a person or animal with a whip or stick:  He was publicly flogged and humiliated.2informal to sell something:  I’m going to flog all my old video tapes.► see thesaurus at sell3 be flogging a dead horse spoken to be wasting time or effort by trying to do something that is impossible4flog something to death British English informal to repeat a story or use an idea etc so often that people become bored with it:  They take a good idea and flog it to death.
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