We gave the Japanese team a good drubbing. 我们给了日本队好好的一个痛击。
drubbing
[ noun ]
a sound defeat
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the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
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Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drubbing}.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dr[ae]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. --L'Estrange.
The Iranian navy's drubbing by the Americans doubled Tehran's discomfiture.
Furthermore, Republican strategists are mindful of the drubbing that anti-abortion GOP candidates took in gubernatorial races last year in New Jersey and Virginia.
As stocks on most major world bourses declined, London took a drubbing, too.
At an earlier stop in Florida, Quayle let reporters know he had not forgotten the drubbing they gave him over his military service, his record as a mediocre student and other aspects of his background.
The governor's rout in the abortion session was reminiscent of a similar drubbing he took in efforts to pass a tax on services.
Once he had lost his opening match to Michael Chang - a 6-4 6-0 drubbing that suggested a fatalistic approach to the week's events - Courier must have known he would not reach the final as he had done last year.
Any government em-broiled in two political scandals, a constitutional row and a severe economic slowdown might expect a drubbing at the polls.
Britons voting in nationwide elections today were expected to hand Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the worst electoral drubbing of her 11 years in power and register strong opposition to her economic policies.
The Conservatives risk a drubbing in the European Parliament elections, some of which may come from the anti-European wing of his own party.
Moreover, this year's dazzling 38.1% rise in the Russell 2000 index of small stocks doesn't seem so precarious given last year's 19.5% drubbing.
The drubbing in health-care stocks didn't hurt newly public U.S. Homecare, which offered 1.75 million shares at $9 each.
Dole was rated the heavy favorite in the South Dakota Republican primary as he bid to rebound from last week's drubbing in New Hampshire.
Reflecting anxiety at the government's drop in the polls and its drubbing in elections for the European Parliament last month, Mrs. Thatcher shifted Education Secretary Kenneth Baker to the chairmanship of the Conservative Party.