thrash

英 [θræʃ] 美 [θræʃ]

n.打(谷)；鞭打 vt.抽打；彻底击败 vi.痛打；猛烈移动（动荡）

GRE

◉Usage Examples

(1) Farmers used to thrash their wheat by hand.

(2) They thrash him until he could not stand.

(3) She would never thrash her children.

(1) 农民过去用手打麦脱粒。

(2) 他们直到把他打得站不起来才住手。

(3) 她绝不会鞭打她的孩子。

◉Usage notes

When you thrash someone, you beat them — literally, with your fists, or figuratively, by winning a game or competition.

You can describe your game plan for a chess match this way: "I plan to thrash that show-off in just ten moves." You can also threaten to physically thrash someone, like a neighborhood bully who's been known to thrash much smaller kids. Thrash was originally a sixteenth-century variation on the word thresh, which means to separate grain from wheat or another plant by beating it.

船，她巨大的轮子拍打着浑浊的河水

Three shaggy-haired men thrash tunelessly at their guitars.

3 个头发蓬乱的男人没腔没调地乱弹着吉他。

Thrash is also a noun.

...the thrash of the horses' hooves.

马蹄的猛烈踢蹬

5. [N-COUNT 可数名词]派对；聚会 A thrash is a party.

[BRIT 英] [INFORMAL 非正式]

Harry always invited Charlie when he threw a thrash in his office.

哈里在办公室开派对时总不忘叫上查利。