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bastinado

/bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh/US // ˌbæs təˈneɪ doʊ, -ˈnɑ doʊ //UK // (ˌbæstɪˈneɪdəʊ) //

韧皮病,韧劲十足,韧劲,韧皮病患者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bas·ti·na·does.

    • : a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
    • : a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
    • : a stick or cudgel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bas·ti·na·doed, bas·ti·na·do·ing.

    • : to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

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Examples

  • We had, also, to reckon with the new danger that bastinado floggings might persuade the Greek into betraying us.

  • He decreed the estate to the cousin, and consoled the other for his loss by inflicting the bastinado.

  • Signor me no signors, nor casa me no casas: but get you hence, or you are like to taste of the bastinado.

  • And we saw a Turkish soldier punished with the bastinado,—a sight which did not do me any good, and which made Smith very sick.

  • Will not that trumpery colonel make up his mind to start soon, if he is so ready to give the bastinado to poor folk?