flail
flail 英 [fleɪl] 美 [flel]
vt. 打；用连枷打 vi. 打；用连枷打 n. 连枷（打谷物用的工具）
进行时:flailing 过去式:flailed 过去分词:flailed 第三人称单数:flails 名词复数:flails
- To flail means to wave around wildly. If you are stranded on a deserted island and you see a ship in the distance, it’s a good idea to flail your arms in the air to get the captain’s attention.
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- vt. 打；用连枷打
- vi. 打；用连枷打
- n. 连枷（打谷物用的工具）
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1. We don't know of any other species that uses its body like a flail.
我们并不清楚其他任何鸟类种群是否将身体充当连枷。
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2. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under.
我挥动冰雹的连枷，把绿色的原野捶打得有如银装素裹；
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3. Danilo galloped up in silence, holding a drawn dagger in his left hand, and thrashing the heaving sides of his chestnut horse with his riding whip, as though it were a flail.
丹尼洛默不作声地疾驰，左手中持着一柄拔出的短剑，像用连枷打谷似的用那条短柄长鞭抽打着栗色大马的收缩进去的两肋。
- flail (n.) implement for threshing grain, c. 1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which, if it existed, probably is from West Germanic *flagil (source also of Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a West Germanic borrowing of Late Latin flagellum "winnowing tool, flail," in classical Latin "a whip" (see flagellum).
- flail (v.) mid-15c., "to whip, scourge," from flail (n.). Sense of "to move like a flail" is from 1873. Related: Flailed; flailing.
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