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To flagellate is to whip yourself or someone else, especially as a religious punishment. It is the action that a does. The word is formal and belongs in history books and serious writing; in ordinary talk people say whip or beat. Though actually, English also has another, scientific use of flagellate for tiny living things with a whip-like tail — that is not this sense. Same spelling trap as : it is not about a national flag.
鞭笞；鞭打（自己或他人，尤指宗教苦修）
組成Borrowed from Latin flagellātus, the past form of flagellō, “to whip, flog.” Flagellum in Latin is a little whip.
同家族的字
- flagellanta person who does this, from the same Latin verb
- flagellationthe act of whipping, from the same Latin verb
- flagellumLatin for “little whip”; biology still uses this word
原始詞典資料6 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。
flagellateverb詞源 1/ˈflæ.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/
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To whip or scourge.
- Red welts rising from a flagellated back
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To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
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Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
- The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.
flagellateadj詞源 2/fləˈd͡ʒɛ.lət/
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Resembling a whip.
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biologynatural-sciencesHaving flagella.
flagellatenoun詞源 2/fləˈd͡ʒɛ.lət/
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biologynatural-sciencesAny organism that has flagella.
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。