1. He will first need to be forgiven for having led the DPJ into a resounding election drubbing in 2005. 但面对2005年那场选举的完败，冈田首先要做的是获得支持者的原谅。
2. Scientists have given it a drubbing for its inaccuracies, but the movie has also garnered cautious endorsements for raising the profile of an important issue. 科学家们痛斥这部电影严重失实，但这部电影提出了一个重要问题的侧面，因而仍就获得了谨慎的认可。
3. By the time it became clear that the Republicans were going to receive a drubbing in last year's mid-term congressional elections, Mr Rove's influence had anyway declined. 去年秋天--共和党在国会中期选举中败局已定之时--罗夫的个人影响力--已经越来越小。
英英解释
n.
1. a sound defeat
2. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
