Word · Frequency #13850
flog
鞭打；抽打
to beat someone hard with a whip, rod, or cane, especially as punishment
- 1.
To whip or scourge as punishment.
鞭打或笞打作为惩罚。
- 2.
beat severely with a whip or rod
用鞭子或棍棒猛打
- 3.
To use something to extreme; to abuse.
过度使用某物；滥用。
- 4.
beat with a cane
用藤条抽打
- 5.
To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
用掸子掸去炭灰等。
滥用；过度使用；用掸子拍去（炭灰等）；鞭打或笞打作为惩罚。；用鞭子或棍棒猛打；过度使用某物；滥用。
In use
The cruel captain would flog any sailor who disobeyed orders.
In ancient Rome, slaves were often flogged for stealing.
Watching the rider flogging his horse, the onlookers felt disgust.
The teacher often flogged the students
flog + object
The cruel master flogged the slave.
残忍的主人鞭打了奴隶。
flog + object + with + instrument
with 引出工具。
The soldier was flogged with a leather belt.
那名士兵被用皮带鞭打。
flog + object + to + result
Connections
Collocations
- flog someone with a cane
- 用藤条抽打某人
- The schoolmaster would flog disobedient pupils with a cane.校长会用藤条抽打不听话的学生。
- be publicly flogged
- 被公开鞭打；被当众处以鞭刑
- Under the old law, a thief could be publicly flogged in the town square.根据旧法律，小偷可能会在城镇广场被公开鞭打。
- flog something to death
- 把某事物用滥；过度使用某事物
- The writer feels that this topic has been flogged to death in recent articles.这位作者认为这个话题在近期的文章里已经被用滥了。
- flog the hell out of someone
- 狠揍某人；暴打某人
- The captain shouted that he would flog the hell out of the lazy sailor.船长喊道，他会把那个懒惰的水手狠揍一顿。
Idioms & figurative uses
- flog a dead horse
- 白费力气；做无用功
Learner notes
Memory Tip
flog 中有 log（圆木），想象手持木棍（log）抽打，鞭打惩罚。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：historical writing、legal descriptions of punishment、literary narrative flog 作“鞭打”解时多用于正式或书面语境，比较常见于历史记录、法律文书和文学作品中描述惩罚；日常口语通常用 beat、whip 等更普通的词。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词在 /ɑ/ 读法下都与 flog /flɑɡ/ 押韵，末尾都是 -og，读作 /ɑɡ/：dog, log, fog, hog, frog, clog。注意别把词尾的浊辅音 /ɡ/ 误读成清辅音 /k/，如 flock /flɑk/ 与 flog 拼写相近但读音不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
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