give sb a drubbing
give sb a drubbing 表示“把某人打得大败”，drubbing 是可数名词，前面可加 heavy、severe 等形容词。
The champions gave their rivals a drubbing in the opening match.
冠军队在揭幕战中大败了对手。
痛打；狠揍
惨败；大败；惨败；殴打；痛击
痛打
A severe beating.
惨败
A thorough defeat.
The bully gave the smaller boy a severe drubbing.
那个恶霸狠狠揍了小男孩一顿。
用法提示：此句中'drubbing'作为名词，表示‘殴打’。
After the drubbing in the debate, the politician reconsidered his strategy.
在辩论中遭受痛击后，那位政治家重新考虑了他的策略。
用法提示：此句中'drubbing'作为名词，表示‘痛击’，比喻在辩论中惨败。
The team took a drubbing in the championship game, losing by twenty points.
那支队伍在冠军赛中惨败，输了二十分。
用法提示：此句中'drubbing'作为名词，表示‘惨败’，用于体育比赛。
give sb a drubbing 表示“把某人打得大败”，drubbing 是可数名词，前面可加 heavy、severe 等形容词。
The champions gave their rivals a drubbing in the opening match.
冠军队在揭幕战中大败了对手。
take a drubbing 后常接 from sb，表示被谁击败；也可接 in sth 说明在哪场比赛中。
The home team took a drubbing from the visitors.
主队被客队打得大败。
at the hands of sb 强调败给谁，多用于选举或比赛的惨败。
The party never recovered from its drubbing at the hands of the voters.
该党在选民手中惨败之后一蹶不振。
grammar · medium
易错句子Our team suffered drubbing in the final.
正确表达Our team suffered a drubbing in the final.
drubbing 是可数名词，单数形式不能“裸用”，必须带限定词。这里表示“一场惨败”，要加不定冠词 a：suffer a drubbing。
grammar · medium
易错句子They drubbing our team 5-0 last night.
正确表达They handed our team a 5-0 drubbing last night.
drubbing 只是名词，不能直接当动词用。表示“痛打、大败对手”时，要么用动词 drub（They drubbed our team 5-0），要么用 hand/give sb a drubbing 这样的名词结构，且名词前仍需冠词。
grammar · medium
易错句子Our team suffered from a heavy drubbing.
正确表达Our team suffered a heavy drubbing.
suffer 表示“遭受（失败、打击等）”时直接跟宾语，不加 from。from 只用于 suffer from a disease/illness 这类“患病”的含义。
beating 多指具体的殴打行为，也可指比赛失利；drubbing 更强调惨败，尤指体育比赛中比分悬殊的失利，语气更重。
rout 多指军队或对手溃不成军、四散奔逃，用于军事或正式语境；drubbing 指比分悬殊的惨败，不强调逃跑。
defeat 是中性词，泛指输赢中的失败，不强调程度；drubbing 强调惨败、大比分落败。
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