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VERB
打；猛击
If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
例句
My wife tried to stop them and they beat her...
我妻子想阻止他们，他们就打了她。
They were beaten to death with baseball bats.
他们被人用棒球棒打死了。
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VERB
（通常指多次或连续地）撞击，猛撞，拍打
To beat on, at, or against something means to hit it hard, usually several times or continuously for a period of time.
例句
There was dead silence but for a fly beating against the glass...
当时一片寂静，只听见一只苍蝇不停地撞击着玻璃。
Nina managed to free herself and began beating at the flames with a pillow...
尼娜好不容易挣脱出来，拿起枕头用力扑打火焰。
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VERB
（心脏、脉搏等）跳动
When your heart or pulse beats, it continually makes regular rhythmic movements.
例句
I felt my heart beating faster.
我感觉我的心越跳越快。
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V-ERG
敲，打，击（鼓等）；（鼓等）敲响
If you beat a drum or similar instrument, you hit it in order to make a sound. You can also say that a drum beats .
例句
When you beat the drum, you feel good.
敲鼓的时候感觉很好。
...drums beating and pipes playing.
敲鼓和吹风笛
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N-COUNT
（音乐的）节奏
The beat of a piece of music is the main rhythm that it has.
例句
...the thumping beat of rock music.
摇滚乐强烈的节奏
...the dance beats of the last two decades.
过去20年的舞曲节奏
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N-COUNT
（音乐的）拍子，节拍
In music, a beat is a unit of measurement. The number of beats in a bar of a piece of music is indicated by two numbers at the beginning of the piece.
例句
It's got four beats to a bar.
一个小节有4拍。
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VERB
搅拌；搅打
If you beat eggs, cream, or butter, you mix them thoroughly using a fork or beater.
例句
Beat the eggs and sugar until they start to thicken.
把鸡蛋和白糖混在一起搅打至开始变稠。
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V-ERG
拍打，拍动（翅膀）；（翅膀）拍动
When a bird or insect beats its wings or when its wings beat, its wings move up and down.
例句
Beating their wings they flew off...
它们拍打着翅膀飞走了。
Its wings beat slowly.
它的翅膀缓慢拍动着。
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VERB
打败；击败；战胜
If you beat someone in a competition or election, you defeat them.
例句
In yesterday's games, Switzerland beat the United States two-one...
在昨天的比赛中，瑞士以2比1击败美国。
There are men who simply don't like being beaten by a woman...
有些男人就是不想被女人打败。
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VERB
打破（纪录等）；超过； 突破
If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it.
例句
He was as eager as his Captain to beat the record.
他和队长一样渴望打破这项纪录。
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VERB
战胜（某个组织、问题、疾病等）
If you beat something that you are fighting against, for example an organization, a problem, or a disease, you defeat it.
例句
It became clear that the Union was not going to beat the government...
情况已然明朗，工会无法和政府抗衡。
They recognise that tough action offers the only hope of beating inflation...
他们认识到这一严厉举措是战胜通货膨胀的唯一希望。
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VERB
（常指暂时）击退，中断，中止
If an attack or an attempt is beaten off or is beaten back, it is stopped, often temporarily.
例句
The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents...
救援人员因风浪太大而被迫中断工作。
South Africa's ruling National Party has beaten off a right-wing challenge.
南非执政的国民党已经击退了右翼分子的一次挑战。
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VERB
好于；优于；胜于
If you say that one thing beats another, you mean that it is better than it.
例句
Being boss of a software firm beats selling insurance...
当软件公司的老板比卖保险强多了。
Nothing quite beats the luxury of soaking in a long, hot bath at the end of a tiring day...
辛苦一天之后美美地泡个热水澡比什么都强。
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VERB
没有比…更好的；什么也比不上；最好的莫过于
If you say you can't beat a particular thing you mean that it is the best thing of its kind.
例句
You can't beat soap and water for cleansing.
做清洁没有比用肥皂和水更好的了。
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VERB
赶在…前面；抢先
To beat a time limit or an event means to achieve something before that time or event.
例句
They were trying to beat the midnight deadline...
他们要努力赶在午夜的最后期限之前完成。
Those who shop on Sunday to beat the rush are wasting their time.
那些为了在抢购高峰前下手而在星期天购物的人是在浪费时间。
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N-COUNT
（警察的）辖区，巡逻区；（记者的）负责采访的区域
A police officer's or journalist's beat is the area for which he or she is responsible.
例句
The team police get to know the people in their patrol areas better than cops who must cover a larger beat.
小分队的警察比那些负责大片区域的警察更了解自己管片的群众。
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VERB
把…难住；使不明白；使无法解释
You use beat in expressions such as 'It beats me' or 'What beats me is' to indicate that you cannot understand or explain something.
例句
'What am I doing wrong, anyway?' — 'Beats me, Lewis.'...
“不管怎样，我到底做错了什么？”——“这我也不知道，刘易斯。”
How you can be so insensitive absolutely beats me.
我真搞不懂你怎么会这么麻木。
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PHRASE
滚开；走开
If you tell someone to beat it, you are telling them to go away.
例句
Beat it before it's too late.
趁早滚开。
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CONVENTION
（表示惊讶或恼怒）竟然有这种事？岂有此理！
You can say Can you beat it? or Can you beat that? to show that you are surprised and perhaps annoyed about something.
例句
Can you beat it; there was Graham Greene in Freetown and there was I on the other side of Africa.
真是岂有此理！格雷厄姆·格林在弗里敦，而我却在非洲的另一边。
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PHRASE
比…抢先行动；赶在…前面（做某事）
If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.
例句
Don't be too long about it or you'll find someone has beaten you to it.
别拖得太久，不然就会有人捷足先登了。
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PHRASE
打不过，就入伙
If you can't beat them, join them means that, if someone is too strong for you to defeat, it is better to be on the same side as them.
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PHRASE
停顿；犹豫
If you say or do something without missing a beat, you continue to speak or do it, even though people might have expected you to hesitate or stop.
例句
'Are you jealous?' — 'Only when I'm not in control,' he says, not missing a beat.
“你眼红吗？”——“除非我把持不住自己，”他毫不犹豫地说道。
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PHRASE
错失机会
If you say that someone never misses a beat, you mean that they always know what is going on and how they can take advantage of it.
例句
Skye has scarcely missed a beat as one of the Gold Coast's spectacular models since her marriage.
丝凯作为黄金海岸大红大紫的模特儿，自结婚以后从来就没有错失过任何机会。
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PHRASE
（警察）值勤，当班，巡逻
A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
例句
The officer on the beat picks up information; hears cries for help; makes people feel safe.
值勤警员注意观察情况，对救援呼叫及时反应，确保让百姓有一种安全感。
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PHRASE
打拍子
If you beat time to a piece of music, you move your hand or foot up and down in time with the music. A conductor beats time to show the choir or orchestra how fast they should sing or play the music.
例句
He beats time with hands and feet.
他手脚并用地打着拍子。
Noun
1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
"in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;
"he could feel the beat of her heart"3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music;
"the piece has a fast rhythm""the conductor set the beat"4. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
5. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
6. the sound of stroke or blow;
"he heard the beat of a drum"7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
8. a regular rate of repetition;
"the cox raised the beat"9. a stroke or blow;
"the signal was two beats on the steam pipe"10. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
Verb
1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship""We beat the competition""Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"2. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression;
"Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night""The teacher used to beat the students"3. hit repeatedly;
"beat on the door""beat the table with his shoe"4. move rhythmically;
"Her heart was beating fast"5. shape by beating;
"beat swords into ploughshares"6. make a rhythmic sound;
"Rain drummed against the windshield""The drums beat all night"7. glare or strike with great intensity;
"The sun was beating down on us"8. move with a thrashing motion;
"The bird flapped its wings""The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"9. sail with much tacking or with difficulty;
"The boat beat in the strong wind"10. stir vigorously;
"beat the egg whites""beat the cream"11. strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music;
"beat one's breast""beat one's foot rhythmically"12. be superior;
"Reading beats watching television""This sure beats work!"13. avoid paying;
"beat the subway fare"14. make a sound like a clock or a timer;
"the clocks were ticking""the grandfather clock beat midnight"15. move with a flapping motion;
"The bird's wings were flapping"16. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks;
"Beat the rhythm"17. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
"the city pulsated with music and excitement"18. make by pounding or trampling;
"beat a path through the forest"19. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly;
"beat the drum"20. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
21. beat through cleverness and wit;
"I beat the traffic""She outfoxed her competitors"22. be a mystery or bewildering to;
"This beats me!""Got me--I don't know the answer!""a vexing problem""This question really stuck me"23. wear out completely;
"This kind of work exhausts me""I'm beat""He was all washed up after the exam"Adjective
1. very tired;
"was all in at the end of the day""so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere""bushed after all that exercise""I'm dead after that long trip"