英语释义

1. an exhausted or profitless topic or issue —usually used in the phrases beat a dead horse and flog a dead horse

片语

dead horse work死马式工作

Dead Horse Records唱片公司

folg a dead horse做无用功

Dead Horse Point死马点

Dead Horse State Park死马点

Repay Dead Horse偿还旧债

Dead Horse Point SP死马点州立公园

Dead Horse Crk地址

dead-horse arum死马海芋

英汉例句

• The description documents of a dead horse must compulsory be returned without delay to the Registry Office.

  若马匹死亡则该描述档案必须归还注册办公室，不得延误。

• Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands.

  饑肠辘辘的丹妮滑下了龙背，开始和他一同进食，用她裸露，发烫的手从死马身上剥下大块还在冒烟的肉。

• A dead horse is quite different from a dark horse.

  死马和黑马又完全不同。

• In order to keep his own property, the owner had a gun in his hands, for he knew a dead horse was better than an escaped one.

  为了保护自己的财产，主人持枪在手，毕竟他知道一匹死掉的马总比丢失的马要强。

• If you had the naggingfeeling that it was illegal to drag a dead horse down a street in Toronto, you'd be absolutely right.

  多伦多禁止在大街上拖死马。

• Jack was then working for a dead horse for he had been paid in advance.

  杰克已预领工钱，所以那时他虽然干活，却再也得不到报酬了。

• The man who feeds his horse on Monday and gives him nothing to eat on Tuesday will have a weak horse on Wednesday, a half-dead horse on Thursday, and a dead horse on Friday.

  某一个人，在星期一喂养了他的马，而星期二什么也没给马吃。 那么，到了星期三，这匹马就虚弱了；到了星期四，就半死不活了；到了星期五，它就丧命了。

• The horse did what the fox asked, and then the fox went to the lion, who had his den not far off, and said, "A dead horse is lying out there.

  狐貍跑到狮子住的洞口边，对狮子说：「狮子大王，有条小路上躺着一匹死马，我们一同去，你可以作一顿很不错的午餐来享受哩。」