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flay objfleIv [T]to remove the skin from (a person's or animal's body)剥皮In prehistoric times, people used flint to flay the animals they killed.在史前时期,人们常常用燧石将他们打死的动物剥皮。To flay a person or animal is to whip them so hard that some of their skin comes off.将(人或动物)打得皮开肉绽(fig.) The critics really flayed (=severely criticized) his new book.那些评论家将他的新书批得体无完肤。(fig. infml) My dad'll flay me alive (=punish me severely) for crashing his car.我要撞坏了我爸的车,他还不把我活活剥了皮。
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