hidings
n. 躲藏( hiding的名词复数 ); <口>打; 鞭打; 毫无成功机会
If someone is in hiding, they have secretly gone somewhere where they cannot be seen or found.
Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border...
他们认为格雷藏在法国和意大利边境附近。
Hundreds of people are said to have gone into hiding to avoid arrest...
据说有几百人为躲避逮捕而藏了起来。
If you give someone a hiding, you punish them by hitting them many times.
If you say that someone who is trying to achieve something is on a hiding to nothing, you are emphasizing that they have absolutely no chance of being successful.
As regards commercial survival, a car manufacturer capable of making only 50,000 cars a year is on a hiding to nothing.
谈到商业生存,一个年产只有5万辆的汽车制造厂家是毫无成功希望的。