"the old model of just flogging workers may have worked for the slave ships, but with the brain it just doesn't work. "

to drive, force, or compel by flogging, lashing, or other means.

迫使通过鞭笞、抽打或其它方式驱使、迫使或强迫

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back in the old day, they gave the ill-behaved man a flogging.

过去他们对行为不良的男人，狠狠抽打一顿。

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we discussed some incidents that had happened long ago . it was really flogging a dead horse.

我们讨论了一些很早以前发生的事，实在是“炒冷饭”，毫无意思。

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and right now, the local paper may be flogging your details to a news agency.

现在当地报纸可能在向一家通讯社大肆宣传你的详细情况。

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heathcliff received no flogging , but he was told that the first word he spoke to miss catherine should ensure a dismissal.

希刺克厉夫没有挨鞭子抽，可得到吩咐：只要一开口跟凯瑟琳小姐说话，他就得被撵出去。

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anger hated foreigners, yoga, whales, speed limits and pineapple on pizza; he liked flogging, electrocutions and beer.

“愤怒埃迪”憎恨外国人、瑜珈、鲸鱼、限速和比萨饼上的菠萝，他喜欢鞭苔、电刑和啤酒。

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at the peak of india's strange insurance hysteria a few years ago there were almost 3m people flogging life-insurance policies.

几年前，印度那怪异的保险行业进入到一个歇斯底里的高峰时期，那时有将近三百万人拼命销售人寿保单。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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！

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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”。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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