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Along with its many definitions, beat is featured in a wide variety of idioms. If someone tells you to "beat it," he wants you to go away. If you "beat around the bush," you're not getting to the point. If you "beat the clock," you finish something just in time. One thing beat is not, however, is a nutritious, red root. That's a beet. |
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The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense. beat 的过去式与原形相同。 1 [VERB 动词]打；猛击 If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. 2 [VERB 动词]（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. [V against n] [V at n] [V on n] [Also V n] [usu the N of n] 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。 The rain was beating on the windowpanes. 雨点拍打着窗玻璃。 - Beat is also a noun.
3 [VERB 动词]（心脏、脉搏等）跳动 When your heart or pulse beats, it continually makes regular rhythmic movements. 4 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]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 . 5 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（音乐的）节奏 The beat of a piece of music is the main rhythm that it has. 6 [N-COUNT 可数名词]See also:upbeat ； downbeat ； （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. 7 [VERB 动词]搅拌；搅打 If you beat eggs, cream, or butter, you mix them thoroughly using a fork or beater. 8 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]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. 9 [VERB 动词]打败；击败；战胜 If you beat someone in a competition or election, you defeat them. 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。 She was easily beaten into third place. 她轻易落败，跌至第三。
10 [VERB 动词]打破（纪录等）；超过； 突破 If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it. 11 [VERB 动词]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. 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。 Kate Jackson is expecting her first child at 43—two years after beating breast cancer. 凯特·杰克逊在43岁的时候怀上了第一个孩子——那时她战胜乳腺癌已经有两年了。
12 [VERB 动词]（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. [be V-ed adv] [V adv n] [usu passive] 13 [VERB 动词]好于；优于；胜于 If you say that one thing beats another, you mean that it is better than it. [V n] [no cont] [INFORMAL 非正式] 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。 For an evening stroll the beach at Dieppe is hard to beat. 傍晚散步去迪耶普的海滩简直是不二之选。
14 [VERB 动词]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. 15 [VERB 动词]赶在…前面；抢先 To beat a time limit or an event means to achieve something before that time or event. 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。
16 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（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. 17 [VERB 动词]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. [V n] [INFORMAL 非正式] [SPOKEN 口语] '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。
18 [PHRASE 短语]滚开；走开 If you tell someone to beat it, you are telling them to go away. [INFORMAL 非正式] [SPOKEN 口语] 19 [CONVENTION 惯用语]（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. [feelings] [INFORMAL 非正式] 20 See also:beaten ； beaten-up ； beating ； beat-up ； 21 [PHRASE 短语]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. 22 [PHRASE 短语]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. 23 [PHRASE 短语]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. '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。
24 [PHRASE 短语]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. 25 [PHRASE 短语]（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. 26 [PHRASE 短语]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. 27 to beat someone black and blue→see: black ； to beat someone's brains out →see: brain ； to beat one's breast →see: breast ； to beat about the bush →see: bush ； to beat the clock →see: clock ； to beat or knock the living daylights out of someone →see: daylights ； to beat the drum for someone or something →see: drum ； to beat someone at their own game →see: game ； to beat a retreat →see: retreat ； to beat a retreat →see: kick or knock the shit out of someone ； to beat →see: shit ； a stick to beat someone with →see: stick ； - 相关词组：
beat down beat out beat out of beat up beat up on
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