Lashing

(noun.) rope that is used for fastening something to something else; 'the boats were held together by lashings'.

(adj.) violently urging on by whipping or flogging; 'looked at the lashing riders' .

编辑:玛杰里

• Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• That night there was a storm and I woke to hear the rain lashing the window-panes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I take Tamburlaine in his chariot for the tremendous course of the world's physical history lashing on the harnessed dynasties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

编辑:朗达