beatings

英 [ˈbiːtɪŋz]

美 [ˈbitɪŋz]

n.  狠打; 揍; 笞打; 惨败; 严重受挫; 有规律的敲打(声); 有节奏的运动(声)
beating的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （尤指用棍子等进行的）殴打，痛打
  If someone is given abeating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
  1. ...the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers...
     白人警察对一名黑人驾车者的野蛮殴打。
  2. The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
     这个小组搞到了一些显示囚犯有被毒打痕迹的照片。
• N-SING （竞争或选举中的）大败，惨败
  If something such as a business, a political party, or a team takesa beating, it is defeated by a large amount in a competition or election.
  1. Our firm has taken a terrible beating in recent years.
     我们公司近几年败得一塌糊涂。
• PHRASE 难以被超越
  If you say that something willtake some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made.
  1. For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
     单从规模和气势来说，肯特的利兹城堡独领风骚。

双语例句

• Is that public beatings like this rarely happen. oh, god.
  就是这种公众斗殴很少发生，噢，上帝。
• Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
  刑罚是为亵慢人预备的；鞭打是为愚昧人的背预备的。
• After years of suffering beatings from her husband because she did not want to live alone, she eventually found the courage to leave him.
  因不想独立生活而多年忍受丈夫的拳扣脚踢之后，她终于鼓起勇气离开了他。
• Local reporters frequently risk beatings or worse if they try to investigate corruption.
  如果地方记者试图调查腐败，他们通常面临挨打或更严重的危险。
• She began counting them, remarking that they were much slower than the beatings of her heart;
  那只钟是有秒针的，她开始数秒针的走动，她发现秒针的摆动比自己的心跳要慢得多。
• The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
  这个小组搞到了一些显示囚犯有被毒打痕迹的照片。
• He could stand the beatings and he did.
  挨打他能忍受，也忍受住了。
• Torture is open and rampant, and beatings occur every hour of every day.
  虐囚在那里不仅是完全公开的，而且随处可见，每一天每一刻都有囚犯遭到毒打。
• The films featured scenes of men in bondage or subjected to beatings by women.
  这些电影用男人被女人捆绑或殴打的场面来招徕观众。
• Beatings, floggings, and "accidental" shootings of natives were common.
  殴打、鞭笞和“意外”射杀当地人的事件很常见。