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give someone a flogging
flogging 在这里作为 punish 的具体形式。
The captain gave the sailor a flogging for disobedience.
船长因不服从而鞭打了水手。
鞭打；鞭刑
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
鞭打；鞭刑
The act of punishing someone by hitting or whipping them.
The captain gave the sailor a flogging for disobedience.
船长因不服从而鞭打了水手。
通过打击或鞭打施加的惩罚
Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
Flogging was a common punishment in the 18th century.
鞭打是18世纪常见的惩罚方式。
The court sentenced him to 20 lashes of flogging.
法庭判处他二十鞭的鞭打。
The captain ordered a flogging for the disobedient sailor.
船长下令对不听话的水手进行鞭打。
flogging 在这里作为 punish 的具体形式。
The captain gave the sailor a flogging for disobedience.
船长因不服从而鞭打了水手。
receive 表示被动承受。
The prisoner received a severe flogging.
囚犯受到了严厉的鞭打。
用 for 引出原因。
He got a flogging for stealing food.
他因偷食物而遭受鞭打。
Not this
He got flogging.
Use this
He got a flogging.
flogging 作为名词时，前面需要加冠词 a，表示一次鞭打。错误原因是将动名词形式误用作名词，缺少冠词。
Not this
He received many flogging.
Use this
He received many floggings.
flogging 是可数名词，复数形式为 floggings。错误原因是将其视为不可数名词。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
公开鞭刑
The authorities abolished public flogging in 1870.
当局于1870年废除了公开鞭刑。
遭受鞭打
The sailor received a flogging for disobeying orders.
那名水手因违抗命令而遭受鞭打。
一顿重鞭
He was given a severe flogging for stealing bread.
他因偷面包被重重鞭打了一顿。
判处某人鞭刑
The court sentenced the thief to flogging in public.
法庭判处那名小偷公开鞭刑。
免于鞭打
He managed to escape a flogging by begging for mercy.
他通过求饶设法免于鞭打。
对鞭打的恐惧
Fear of flogging kept many prisoners from misbehaving.
对鞭打的恐惧使许多囚犯不敢行为不端。
做无用功；白费力气
Trying to convince him is like flogging a dead horse.
想说服他就像鞭打死马一样，纯属白费力气。
惨败；遭受重创
The company took a flogging in the media this week.
这家公司本周在媒体上遭受重创。
对已尽力的人再施压；多此一举
She works hard already, so don't keep flogging a willing horse.
她已经很努力了，别再逼她做更多了。
还有鞭打。
In the 1979 Monty Python film Life of Brian, a revolutionary adds 'the flogging' to the list of Roman contributions, ironically treating punishment as one of the Romans' gifts.
在1979年蒙提·派森电影《万世魔星》中，一位革命者把“鞭打”也列为罗马人的贡献，讽刺性地把刑罚当作罗马人带来的“好处”。
Use flogging naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想记忆：flogging 里有 log（圆木），想象鞭子抽打圆木，即鞭打、鞭刑。
语域：formal 常见场景：法律/司法语境、历史叙述、纪律处罚描述 flogging 作名词时通常指作为惩罚手段的鞭打，多用于正式或书面语境，如法律、历史或纪律描写；日常口语中更常说 whipping 或用动词 flog。
可数名词，复数形式为floggings
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