flogging

Now if all that sounds as if I'm simply flogging the ideological merits of the FSUW, well, you're dead right.

如果综上所述，我听起来只是在出售FSUW的意识形态优点，那么你太有才了。

You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.

想劝他接受新思想根本不可能，他决对是个老顽固。

You'll be flogging a dead horse if you keep trying to get Walter to make a contribution, you know mean he is.

如果你坚持想要沃尔特作贡献的话，你会白费劲的，你知道他是极其吝啬的。

This is just a less than charismatic new way of flogging a few ephemeral images.

但这不过只比出售一些转瞬即逝的图像的新鲜行为稍稍欠缺了些魅力而已。

To help make up the difference, they rely on expropriating land from farmers and flogging it to bullish property developers.

为了弥补此差额，他们依靠征用农用地和鞭策地产开发商以挂牌招标的涨价方式来进行。

flogging her guts out in London's worst record store.

在伦敦最差劲的唱片店累得一塌糊涂

It did not need the medium of a flogging to produce that effect on the master.

并不需要鞭笞，在主人身上就已经产生了挨打的效果。

a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners.

用缠绕在金属丝上的皮革制成的鞭子；用来鞭打囚犯。

John takes his new car seriously. If you try to persuade him to lend it to you, you are flogging a dead horse.

约翰很看重他的新汽车，如果你试图劝他借给你用，那只是白费力气。

John takes his new car seriously. if you try to persuade him to lend it to you, you are flogging a dead hose.

约翰非常看重他的新车。如果你想说服他把车借给你用几天，那绝对是不可能的。

And that led the chiefs to do what's called flogging the land: overstocking the land, forcing tenant farmers into dependency.

这一风气的驱使下，首领们纷纷行动，后世称之为“刮地皮”：他们过度积压土地，强迫土地租用人成为附庸。

The human rights organisation Amnesty International condemned the sentence, describing flogging as a cruel punishment.

对于加斯塔尼亚被判鞭刑，国际特赦组织表示谴责，认为这一惩罚很残酷。

During boom years, when flogging stock was all but assured, clients moaned when paying the fees.

在繁荣时期，当发行股票几乎万无一失时，客户在支付费用时会颇有怨言。

The fact that I let myself get so upset over my flogging is a prime example of "disconnected thinking" .

事实是，我让我自己生气，而陷入“未联系思考模式”。

Once an idea has been floated as convincingly as I think it needs to be, I don't want to go on flogging it forever!

当我认为一份构想已经很有说服力的提出来共大家欣赏以后，我就不想再去鞭打一匹死马一直到永远！

He is starting to sound, I laugh, like one of those adverts on daytime TV flogging dodgy loans.

他开始发出搞笑的声音，我也附和着大笑，就像白天电视节目里抨击可怕贷款广告的主持人一样。

While they initially were sentenced to imprisonment and flogging, they were later pardoned and released.

尽管最初他们被判坐牢并接受鞭刑，但之后都被宽赦释放了。

Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.

房地产成交量显著下滑，开发商们宁愿苦苦空等需求回升，也不愿意进行让利促销。

There is nothing like a public flogging to get the people on your side.

没有什么比公开质询更能让人们站在你这一边。

Forward-thinking stuff, but then, she was flogging prophecies.

这是一种超前思维，但话说回来，她本来就是在推销预言。