When someone flays an animal or person, they remove their skin, usually when they are dead.
例句
They had to flay the great, white, fleecy animals and cut them up for food...他们不得不将这些体形庞大、身披绒毛的白色动物剥皮，然后切碎了做食物。To remain together was like volunteering to be flayed alive.再要呆在一起就好像自愿被活活剥皮一样。
VERB
严厉批评;鞭挞
If you flay someone, you criticize them severely for their beliefs, policies, or actions.
例句
...and he flayed those who allowed 'foreign potentates and powers' to violate American sovereignty.他还鞭挞那些允许“外国君主和势力”侵犯美国主权的人。
英汉词典释义
vt.
痛打;把…打得皮开肉绽
He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.他气得几乎把马活活抽死。
剥(通常指动物)的皮
You cannot flay the same ox twice.一头牛不能剥两次皮。There he was condemned to death by the king, and before being beheaded he was flayed alive.他被那里的国王定为死罪，在被砍头之前，活活地剥了皮。