| 单词 | beat |
| 释义 | beat (biːt ) Word forms: beats , beating , beaten language note: The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense. 1. verb B2 If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. My sister tried to stop them and they beat her. [VERB noun] They were beaten to death with baseball bats. [be VERB-ed + to] Synonyms: batter, break, hit, strike 2. verb B2 To beat on, beat at, or beat against something means to hit it hard, usually several times or continuously for a period of time. There was dead silence but for a fly beating against the glass. [VERB + against] Nina managed to free herself and began beating at the flames with a pillow. [VERB + at] The rain was beating on the windowpanes. [VERB + on] Synonyms: pound, strike, hammer [informal], batter Beat is also a noun. ...the rhythmic beat of the surf. beating singular noun ...the silence broken only by the beating of the rain. Synonyms: throb, pounding, pumping, pulse Synonyms: defeat, ruin, overthrow, pasting [slang] Synonyms: thrashing, hiding [informal], belting [informal], whipping [slang] 3. verb B1+ When your heart or pulse beats, it continually makes regular rhythmic movements. I felt my heart beating faster. [VERB] Synonyms: throb, pulse, tick, thump Beat is also a noun. He could hear the beat of his heart. Most people's pulse rate is more than 70 beats per minute. beating singular noun I could hear the beating of my heart. Synonyms: throb, pounding, pumping, pulse Synonyms: defeat, ruin, overthrow, pasting [slang] Synonyms: thrashing, hiding [informal], belting [informal], whipping [slang] 4. verb 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. When you beat the drum, you feel good. [VERB noun] ...drums beating and pipes playing. [VERB] Synonyms: hit, play, strike, bang Beat is also a noun. ...the rhythmical beat of the drum. 5. countable noun [usually singular] B2 The beat of a piece of music is the main rhythm that it has. ...the thumping beat of rock music. ...the dance beats of the last two decades. Synonyms: rhythm, time, measure [prosody], movement 6. countable noun [usually plural] 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. It's got four beats to a bar. 7. See also downbeat, upbeat 8. verb If you beat eggs, cream, or butter, you mix them thoroughly using a fork or beater. Beat the eggs and sugar until they start to thicken. [VERB noun] Synonyms: whisk, mix, stir, fold 9. verb B1 When a bird or insect beats its wings or when its wings beat, its wings move up and down. Beating their wings they flew off. [VERB noun] Its wings beat slowly. [VERB] Synonyms: flap, thrash, flutter, agitate 10. verb B1 If you beat someone in a competition or election, you defeat them. In yesterday's games, Switzerland beat the United States two-one. [VERB noun] There are men who simply don't like being beaten by a woman. [VERB noun] She was easily beaten into third place. [be VERB-ed + into] Synonyms: defeat, outdo, trounce, overcome 11. verb B1 If someone beats a record or achievement, they do better than it. He was as eager as his Captain to beat the record. [VERB noun] Synonyms: exceed, best, top, cap [informal] 12. verb B1 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. [VERB noun] The doctor gave him the news that he'd beaten cancer. They recognise that tough action offers the only hope of beating inflation. [VERB noun] Both he and his wife have recently beaten cancer and now are taking on some new challenges. [VERB noun] 13. verb [usually passive] If an attack or an attempt is beaten off or is beaten back, it is stopped, often temporarily. The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents. [be V-ed adv] ...the day after government troops beat off a fierce rebel attack on its capital. [V adv n] 14. verb [no cont] If you say that one thing beats another, you mean that it is better than it. [informal] Being boss of a software firm beats selling insurance. [VERB noun] Nothing quite beats the luxury of soaking in a long, hot bath at the end of a tiring day. [VERB noun] For an evening stroll the beach at Dieppe is hard to beat. [VERB noun] 15. verb [no cont] If you say you can't beat a particular thing you mean that it is the best thing of its kind. You can't beat soap and water for cleansing. [VERB noun] 16. verb 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. [VERB noun] Those who shop on Sunday to beat the rush are wasting their time. [VERB noun] 17. countable noun A police officer's or journalist's beat is the area for which he or she is responsible. Crime on his beat has halved. 18. verb You use beat in expressions such as 'It beats me' or 'What beats me is' to indicate that you cannot understand or explain something. [informal, spoken] 'What am I doing wrong, anyway?'—'Beats me, Lewis.' [VERB noun] How you can be so insensitive absolutely beats me. [VERB noun] 19. phrase If you tell someone to beat it, you are telling them to go away. [informal, spoken] Beat it before it's too late. 20. convention You can say Can you beat it? or Can you beat that? to show that you are surprised and perhaps annoyed about something. [informal, feelings] Can you beat it; there was Graham Greene in Freetown and there was I on the other side of Africa. 21. See also beaten, beaten-up, beating, beat-up 22. beat sb to it phrase If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do. Don't be too long about it or you'll find someone has beaten you to it. 23. If you can't beat them, join them. phrase 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. [informal] 24. miss a beat phrase 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. 25. miss a beat phrase 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. Skye has scarcely missed a beat as one of the Gold Coast's spectacular models. 26. on the beat phrase A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible. The officer on the beat picks up information; hears cries for help; makes people feel safe. 27. beat time phrase 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. He beats time with hands and feet. 28. to beat someone black and blue phrase If you say that someone is black and blue, you mean that they are badly bruised. The next day I was black and blue and couldn't move my neck. Bud's nose was still black and blue. 29. to beat someone's brains out phrase [VERB inflects] To beat someone's brains out or bash their brains in means to hit their head very hard, so that they are badly injured or killed. [informal] They stood over him with clubs raised as if to beat his brains out. 30. to beat one's breast phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone beats their breast, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or upset about something, or that they are pretending to be very angry or upset about it. [emphasis] The president beat his breast and called that deal a mistake. 31. to beat about the bush phrase If you tell someone not to beat about the bush, you mean that you want them to tell you something immediately and quickly, rather than in a complicated, indirect way. Stop beating about the bush. What's he done? 32. to beat the clock phrase [VERB inflects] If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended. 33. to beat or knock the living daylights out of someone phrase If you knock the living daylights out of someone, or beat the living daylights out of them, you hit them very hard many times. [informal] 34. to beat the drum for someone or something phrase If someone beats the drum or bangs the drum for something, they support it strongly. The trade secretary disagreed but promised to 'bang the drum for industry'. 35. to beat someone at their own game phrase If you beat someone at their own game, you use the same methods that they have used, but more successfully, so that you gain an advantage over them. He must anticipate the maneuvers of the other lawyers and beat them at their own game. The police knew that to trap the killer they had to play him at his own game. 36. to beat a retreat phrase If you beat a retreat, you leave a place quickly in order to avoid an embarrassing or dangerous situation. Cockburn decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat. 37. a stick to beat someone with phrase If you say that something is a stick to beat someone with, you mean that it is used, or could be used, as a basis for criticism. [journalism] Unfortunately historic American fiction is constantly being used as a stick to beat contemporary British writers with. Phrasal verbs: beat down 1. phrasal verb When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright. 2. phrasal verb When the rain beats down, it rains very hard. Even in the winter with the rain beating down, it's nice and cosy in there. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you beat down a person who is selling you something, you force them to accept a lower price for it than they wanted to get. A fair employer, when arranging for the pay of a carpenter, does not try to beat him down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Beat down the seller to the price that suits you. [VERB PARTICLE noun] beat out 1. phrasal verb If you beat out sounds on a drum or similar instrument, you make the sounds by hitting the instrument. Drums and cymbals beat out a solemn rhythm. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If you beat out a fire, you cause it to go out by hitting it, usually with an object such as a blanket. His brother beat out the flames with a blanket. [VERB PARTICLE noun] She managed to beat the fire out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you beat out someone in a competition, you defeat them. [mainly US] Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center. [VERB PARTICLE noun] If we are certain a rival will beat us out, we are wide open to jealousy. [VERB noun PARTICLE] beat out of phrasal verb If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly. If he could beat his uncle out of a dollar he'd do it. [VERB noun PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] beat up 1. phrasal verb B2 If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times. Then they actually beat her up as well. [VERB noun PARTICLE] The government supporters are beating up anyone they suspect of favouring the demonstrators. [VERB PARTICLE noun] beating-up Word forms: beatings-up countable noun There had been no violence, no beatings-up until then. 2. phrasal verb If you beat yourself up about something, you worry about it a lot or blame yourself for it. [informal] Tell them you don't want to do it any more. Don't beat yourself up about it. [V pron-refl P + about] I don't beat myself up. I don't deal with things I can't handle. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE] beat up on 1. phrasal verb If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times. [US] He beat up on my brother's kid one time. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If someone beats up on another person, they threaten them or treat them unkindly. [US, informal] She had to beat up on every customer just to get the bills paid. [VERB PARTICLE PARTICLE noun] Idioms: beat someone hollow [British] to defeat someone completely Waterman was the first independent operator to take on the big boys at the pop game and beat them hollow. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat someone at their own game to do something more successfully than someone else, although they have a reputation for doing it very well The Cats beat Brisbane at their own game: they were more aggressive and equally skilled. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the living daylights out of someone to attack someone physically, hitting them many times The two men were beating the living daylights out of each other. to defeat someone totally in a competition or contest He enjoys the money and the fame but his true pleasure comes from walking on to a golf course and beating the living daylights out of everyone else. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the bushes [mainly US] to try very hard to get or achieve something He was tired of beating the bushes for work, and he did not want to ask for help or accept charity. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers not beat about the bush [British] or not beat around the bush to say what you want to say clearly and directly, even though it is not pleasant I decided not to beat around the bush. `I'm at Sam's,' I told her. `Eddie didn't come back from his paper route yet. Nobody knows where he is.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers without missing a beat without pausing or hesitating She was asked point-blank whether she should bow out. But, without missing a beat, she replied: `I do not believe it is appropriate for me to withdraw my nomination.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers not miss a beat to always know what is happening and so be able to take advantage of every situation This time we played like machines. The longer the game went the stronger we got, and we never missed a beat. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat your breast or beat your chest to show regret or anger very publicly about something that has gone wrong in a way that is usually not sincere He is very thoughtful with the players. He doesn't go around beating his chest all the time. He knows when a quiet chat is what's needed. His pious breast-beating on behalf of the working classes was transparently bogus, but it was a clever public relations job. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat the pants off someone [informal] to defeat someone completely in a contest or competition Devlin indicated the chess table beside the sofa. `Any excuse to get away from that. He was beating the pants off me.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat a path to someone's door to be eager to talk to someone or to do business with them Fashion editors now beat a path to Mugler's door and thousands of followers flock to get into one of his events. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat someone to a pulp or beat someone to pulp to injure someone very badly by hitting them repeatedly Motorists were pulled from their cars, beaten and kicked to a pulp, and left to die in the road. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a stick to beat someone with [British] something that can be used to cause embarrassment or difficulty for someone Surprisingly, the opposition, usually eager to find any stick to beat the government with, is refusing to comment on the affair. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers beat swords into ploughshares to try to stop war or conflict, and to use the resources and technology of warfare to do other things to improve people's lives He started a business that converted scrap titanium from decommissioned missiles into golf clubs, a unique example of beating swords into ploughshares. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 敲打, 打, 胜过 Japanese: 打つこと, 続けざまに打つ, ･･･に勝つ outdo |
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