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

• At least 300 have died from starvation, dehydration and beatings, according to the UN.
  联合国（UN）称，至少有300人死于饥饿、脱水和毒打。
• 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。
• Beatings, looting and arson by marauding militias have created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity.
  这些民兵盗匪在村落里打人、抢劫和纵火，制造了恐慌不安的气氛。
• A maid was forced to work 21 hours a day and endure beatings with a toilet brush.
  一名女佣被雇主强迫每日工作二十一小时，雇主并用厕所刷毒打女佣。
• Foreign media reported protesters wounded from gunfire, tear gas, and beatings by Yemeni security forces.
  外国媒体报导说，枪击、催泪弹和也门安全人员的殴打导致抗议者受伤。
• I ask how he managed physically during the trial, mindful that following his release from prison in 2004 the charges were eventually quashed after six years inside he flew to Germany for surgery, following repeated beatings.
  我问他，在审判期间是如何维持身体状况的，我知道在已经服刑六年，到2004年案件才终于撤销从监狱释放后，他曾因遭到反复殴打而飞往德国接受手术。
• Black residents were given little opportunity to register to vote, and those who tried were subjected to intimidation, beatings and economic retaliation.
  当时黑人居民几乎得不到机会去登记投票，而那些试图去投票的人则遭到恐吓、殴打和经济上的报复。
• 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 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。
• A barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks.
  野蛮的罪行；残忍的痛打；残忍的拷打；斯大林对富农的残忍对待；野蛮的攻击；野蛮的脚踢。