dead horse

基本解釋

The horse did what the fox asked, and then the fox went to the lion, who had his den not far off, and said, "A dead horse is lying out there.
狐貍跑到獅子住的洞口邊，對(duì)獅子說：“獅子大王，有條小路上躺著一匹死馬，我們一同去，你可以作一頓很不錯(cuò)的午餐來享受哩?！?/li>
The man who feeds his horse on Monday and gives him nothing to eat on Tuesday will have a weak horse on Wednesday, a half-dead horse on Thursday, and a dead horse on Friday.
某一個(gè)人，在星期一喂養(yǎng)了他的馬，而星期二什么也沒給馬吃。那么，到了星期三，這匹馬就虛弱了；到了星期四，就半死不活了；到了星期五，它就喪命了。
Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania photographed 1863. Civil War Photograph Collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
一匹馬的尸體躺在戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上，1863年拍攝于賓夕法尼亞州葛底斯堡。

We say this is like beating a dead horse.
Even there, a horse is not really a rigid body, unless it's been dead for a long time.
馬甚至都不是真正的剛體,除非是死了很長時(shí)間了
耶魯公開課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

Better, perhaps, to let the dead horse that is Mr Raffarin take another flogging.
ECONOMIST: Chirac shuffles the pack The