flay
flay 英 [fleɪ] 美 [fle]
vt. 剥皮；掠夺；严厉批评
进行时:flaying 过去式:flayed 过去分词:flayed 第三人称单数:flays
- Nasty word, flay. It means to peel or beat the skin of a person or animal, and not necessarily a dead one, either. Nowadays it more commonly means to criticize harshly someone or something, usually in public, leaving them raw and wounded.
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- vt. 剥皮；掠夺；严厉批评
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1. You cannot flay the same ox twice.
一头牛不能剥两次皮。
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2. "A flaw with, say, the Food Network site is that if Bobby flay throws up a recipe, people will try it no matter what, because it's his, " says Stokes.
他说：“比如说，像Food Network这种网站的缺点就是，一旦鲍比•弗雷（Bobby Flay，美国著名特级厨师——译注）抛出一份菜谱来，不管它到底如何，大家都会一拥而上，一试身手，就因为这是他给出的菜谱。”
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3. The flower of humor blooms whenever in the course of development of a nation there is an exuberance of intellect able to flay its own ideals, for humor is nothing but intellect slashing at itself.
无论一个国家发展到什么阶段，只要它拥有富足的智者得以批判这个国家的自负时，幽默之花就会盛放，因为幽默无非是智者对自己的鞭挞。
- flay (v.) Old English flean "to skin, to flay" (strong verb, past tense flog, past participle flagen), from Proto-Germanic *flahan (source also of Middle Dutch vlaen, Old High German flahan, Old Norse fla), from PIE root *pl(e)ik-, *pleik- "to tear, rend" (source also of Lithuanian plėšti "to tear"). Related: Flayed; flaying.
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