beat

• vt. 打；打败
• vi. 打；打败；拍打；有节奏地舒张与收缩
• n. 拍子；敲击；有规律的一连串敲打
• adj. 筋疲力尽的；疲惫不堪的
• n. (Beat)人名；(德)贝亚特

来自PIE *bhau, bhat, 击，打。同bat, batter, butt.

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

beat

beat: [OE] Old English bēatan and the related Old Norse bauta may be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *bautan. It has been conjectured that this could be connected with *fu-, the base of Latin confūtāre and refūtāre (source respectively of English confute [16] and refute [16]) and of Latin fustis ‘club’ (from which English gets fusty [14]).
=> beetle, confute, fusty, refute

beat (v.)

Old English beatan "inflict blows on, thrash" (class VII strong verb; past tense beot, past participle beaten), from Proto-Germanic *bautan (cognates: Old Norse bauta, Old High German bozan "to beat"), from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (see batter (v.)). Of the heart, c. 1200, from notion of it striking against the breast. Meaning "to overcome in a contest" is from 1610s (the source of the sense of "legally avoid, escape" in beat the charges, etc., attested from c. 1920 in underworld slang).

Past tense beat is from c. 1500, probably not from Old English but a shortening of Middle English beted. Dead-beat (originally "tired-out") preserves the old past participle. Meaning "strike cover to rouse or drive game" (c. 1400) is source of beat around the bush (1570s), the metaphoric sense of which has shifted from "make preliminary motions" to "avoid, evade." Command beat it "go away" first recorded 1906 (though "action of feet upon the ground" was a sense of Old English betan). To beat off "masturbate" is recorded by 1960s. For beat generation see beatnik.

beat (n.)

c. 1300, "a beating, whipping; the beating of a drum," from beat (v.). As "throb of the heart" from 1755. Meaning "regular route travelled by someone" is attested from 1731, also "a track made by animals" (1736), from the sense of the "beat" of the feet on the ground (late Old English), or perhaps that in beat the bushes to flush game (c. 1400), or beat the bounds (1560s). Extended to journalism by 1875. Musical sense is by 1842, perhaps from the motion of the conductor and the notion of "beating the time":

It is usual, in beating the time of a piece of music, to mark or signalize the commencement of every measure by a downward movement or beat of the hand, or of any other article that may be used for the purpose .... ["Godfrey Weber's General Music Teacher," 1842]

Earlier in music it meant a sort of grace note:

BEAT, in music, a transient grace note, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament. The beat always lies half a note beneath its principal, and should be heard so closely upon it, that they may almost seem to be struck together. ["The British Encyclopedia," London, 1809]

beat (adj.)

"defeated, overcome by effort," c. 1400, from past tense of beat (v.). Meaning "tired, exhausted," is by 1905, American English.

beat, strike, hit, thrash, whip

这些动词均含有"打"之意。

beat： 普通用词，含义广泛，指连续打击。游戏、竞赛或战争中作打败解。

strike： 普通用词，多指急速或突然一次猛击。

hit： 普通用词，常与strike换用，侧重有目标的猛击，强调用力击中。

thrash： 侧重指用棍子或鞭子等痛打。

whip： 多指用鞭子抽打。

conquer, overcome, overthrow, defeat, beat, subdue

这些动词均含"征服，战胜"之意。

conquer： 侧重战胜和控制。书面用词。

overcome： 多指战胜或克服非物质的东西，如困难和不良习惯等。语气较弱也可指在斗争或竞争中战胜或压倒对方。

overthrow： 指彻底击败对手，使其丧失力量和地位。

defeat： 普通用词，多指在战争、比赛、竞选或辩论中战胜对手，侧重胜利的暂时性。

beat： 口笔语均可用，可与defeat换用。

subdue： 正式用词，与conquer同义，但强调失败后的臣服状态；也可用作借喻，表克制、压抑感情、欲望等。

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

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Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey ( ' , 冰球 ) final.

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This picnic should beat the last one we went to, doesn't it?

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Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey (冰球) final.

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Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

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So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later.

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While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down.

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They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

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Do you know who we have to beat? asked Saul.

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Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

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One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

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I saw kids and parents beat themselves up over this.

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If this were a Hollywood movie, the courageous old Indiana farmer would beat the profit-minded corporation before the credits rolled

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They beat humans in precision.

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The younger generation will beat the old.

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This picnic should beat the last one we went to, doesn't it?

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She beat the record by almost two hours, and her father rewarded her with a red sports car.

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The board game Go(围棋) took over from chess as a new test for human thinking in 2016, when a computer beat one of the world's leading professional Go players.

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Then a computer beat the human world champion, repeatedly.

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Conclusion· With a large brain, human beings beat other beings in terms of intelligence.

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Good news beats bad on social networks.

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If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies.

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My panic was rising and I could feel my heart beating wildly.

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One of the beat TV programmes.

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Steve and Naomi spoke in musical code lines, beats, intervals, moving from the root to end a song in a new key.

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That meant beating out Miller king, who was the best player at our school.

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The AI beats humans in international chess matches.

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The noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me.

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Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at jamaica's olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint.

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Britain town, it is true are not prevented from applying, but they generally lack the resources to put together a bit to beat their bigger competitions.

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Later, more established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might beat them to the punch.

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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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Beat it before it's too late.

趁早滚开。

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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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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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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。

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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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Being boss of a software firm beats selling insurance...

当软件公司的老板比卖保险强多了。

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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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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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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。

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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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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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'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。”

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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。

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Its wings beat slowly.

它的翅膀缓慢拍动着。

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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。

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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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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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Beating their wings they flew off...

它们拍打着翅膀飞走了。

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...the thumping beat of rock music.

摇滚乐强烈的节奏

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...the dance beats of the last two decades.

过去20年的舞曲节奏

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It's got four beats to a bar.

一个小节有4拍。

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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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...drums beating and pipes playing.

敲鼓和吹风笛

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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。

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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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I felt my heart beating faster.

我感觉我的心越跳越快。

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When you beat the drum, you feel good.

敲鼓的时候感觉很好。

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My wife tried to stop them and they beat her...

我妻子想阻止他们，他们就打了她。

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They were beaten to death with baseball bats.

他们被人用棒球棒打死了。

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