| 单词 | thrash |
| 例句 | thrash verb 1.•she thrashed him across the head and shoulders:hit, beat, strike, batter, thump, hammer, pound, rain blows on | assault, attack | cudgel, club | informal wallop, belt, bash, whup, whack, thwack, clout, clobber, pummel, slug, tan, sock, beat the (living) daylights out of. 2.•he was thrashing around in pain:flail, writhe, thresh, jerk, toss, twist, twitch. PHRASES thrash out 1.•new statutes raise new questions inevitably, and these will be thrashed out in the courts:resolve, settle, sort out, work out, straighten out, iron out, clear up | talk through, discuss, debate. 2.•they worked to thrash out a peace agreement between the two countries:work out, negotiate, agree on, bring about, hammer out, hammer together, hash out, produce, effect. WORD NOTE whup A good-ol’-boy verb from the late nineteenth century, which sounds as if it originated in the South or West, meaning decisively to beat or whip (from which it derives): •Zeke, if you don't stop messin’ with them pigeons, your daddy's gonna whup your behind. In fact, whup means “beat” in two other ways as well: “defeat” •(Boys, are we gonna whup the Tigers tomorrow? You're goddam right we are!), and, as a past participle, “exhausted” (Southern guy walks into a bar, sits down, says, •"Man, I'm whupped. Gimme some of that good beer”). — JSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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