hidings
n. 躲藏( hiding的名詞複數 ); <口>打; 鞭打; 毫無成功機會
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...
他們認為格雷藏在法國和義大利邊境附近。
Hundreds of people are said to have gone into hiding to avoid arrest...
據說有幾百人為躲避逮捕而藏了起來。
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.
談到商業生存,一個年產只有5萬輛的汽車製造廠家是毫無成功希望的。