| 单词 | to beat to it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto beat (one) to it f. To get ahead of; so, to beat (one) to it: to anticipate in doing something. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall before-takea1382 preventc1425 devance1485 prevenea1500 lurch1530 to take before the bounda1556 to be aforehand with1570 to be beforehand with1574 to meet halfwaya1586 preoccupate1588 forestall1589 fore-run1591 surprise1591 antedate1595 foreprise1597 preoccupy1607 preoccupy1638 pre-act1655 anticipatea1682 obviate1712 to head off1841 beat1847 to beat out1893 pre-empt1957 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. xvii. 327 She would gladly have gathered it [sc. a letter] up..but Hareton beat her; he seized, and put it in his waistcoat. 1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier i. 21 He's watching the rangers,..and will probably try to beat them here. 1904 McClure's Mag. Mar. 556/2 ‘They simply beat us to it,’ complained Barrett, as we rode south. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xii. 321 She found that Reddy'd beat her to it. 1923 M. Watts Luther Nichols 198 If the sheriff don't beat me to it. 1937 M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning xvi. 203 Poor old Chloe! I never thought she'd beat me to it. < as lemmas |
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