1670s, slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a schoolboy shortening of Latin flagellare "flagellate" (see flagellum); Century Dictionary suggests perhaps from a Low German word "of homely use, of which the early traces have disappeared." OED finds it presumably onomatopoeic. Figurative use from 1800. Related: Flogged; flogging.
权威例句
1. They are trying to flog their house.
他们正试图卖掉房子。
2. Flog them soundly.
好好鞭打他们一顿。
3. Compare sell, vend, peddle , push and flog.
试比较sell、vend 、 peddle 、 push、flog这几个词.
4. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon.
他用橡皮警棍把她活活抽死.
5. At the present moment, polished English gentlemen flog Africans so severely.