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

• How many times he had been beaten, how long the beatings had continued, he could not remember.
  他给打过多少次、每次拷打多久，他都记不得了。
• 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。
• There were fatal confrontations between fellow prisoners, guard beatings, and failed escapes off the island.
  在这里，囚犯之间有严重的冲突，狱警实施暴力，许多失败的越狱事件。
• Beatings and other cruelties were dealt out to those who had been captured.
  那些被俘的人遭毒打并受到其他非人道待遇。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But for those who have tired of watching the beatings in China's many Chongqings, maybe that just no longer matters.
  不过，对于那些厌倦了观看在中国很多城市像重庆这样“欺负”外国公司的人，或许这已经不重要了。
• 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。
• 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。