一下又一下地被打，直到撐不住
兩個意思共用「打不停」這個畫面，差別只在被打的是真的東西，還是名聲、生意這種摸不到的東西。
noun · B2
The act of hitting something or someone hard many times, and the damage left by that repeated hitting.
連續重擊；毆打
核心畫面
Picture blow after blow landing on the same spot. Not one big hit, but many, until the thing being hit is worn down: a sea wall under the all night, a shed in a typhoon. Both meanings of battering sit inside that picture. One keeps the blows real. The other moves the same picture onto things you cannot touch, so a reputation or a small shop is worn down by one piece of bad news after another.
「battering」可以想成同一個地方被打了一下、又一下。重點不在單獨那一擊有多重，而在它停不下來。海浪整夜拍著堤…更多收起
「battering」可以想成同一個地方被打了一下、又一下。重點不在單獨那一擊有多重，而在它停不下來。海浪整夜拍著堤防、颱風打了一整晚的工具間，就是這個畫面。這個字的兩個意思都住在這個畫面裡。一個維持在真的挨打。另一個像是把同一個畫面搬到摸不到的東西上：名聲、生意、信心，也會被一次又一次的壞消息打到撐不住。One branch
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
batteringnoun/ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
- 1
A heavy beating.
- Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
- 2
A large defeat.
- That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
- 3
datedDomestic violence
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。