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单词 beat up
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beat up

1. phrasal verb
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-upWord forms: plural 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 n P + about]
I don't beat myself up. I don't deal with things I can't handle. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
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beat-up

adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A beat-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
[informal]
...a beat-up old Fiat 131.

beat up in British English

informal
verb
1. (tr, adverb)
to strike or kick (a person), usually repeatedly, so as to inflict severe physical damage
2.  beat oneself up
adjective beat-up
3. 
worn-out; dilapidated
4. 
in bad condition

beat-up in British English

(ˈbiːtʌp)
adjective
informal
in bad condition
a beat-up old car

beat-up in American English

(ˈbitˈʌp)
US
adjective
Slang
dilapidated, battered, shabby, deteriorated, etc.

Examples of 'beat up' in a sentence
beat up

I got beat up in the jungle.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A husband who beat up his wife in a row over rubbish going into the wrong recycling bins is facing jail.
The Sun (2014)
I'm glad you got an old beat-up car instead of a gross Cadillac or something.
Lowry, Lois ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1) (2001)
Kenneth would send him and he'd come like a beat-up, punch-drunk fighter; useless and straight into the trap.
Thomas, Craig THE LAST RAVEN (2001)
He sat in the chair, his elbows resting on the beat-up table, embarrassed at what his answer had to be.
James W. Huston FALLOUT (2001)

In other languages
beat up

British English: beat-up ADJECTIVE
A beat-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
...a beat-up old car.
  • American English: beat-up
  • Brazilian Portuguese: surrado
  • Chinese: 破旧的
  • European Spanish: destartalado
  • French: déglingué
  • German: ramponiert
  • Italian: scassato
  • Japanese: おんぼろの
  • Korean: 낡아 빠진
  • European Portuguese: surrado
  • Latin American Spanish: destartalado

Chinese translation of 'beat up'

beat up

vt

  1. [person] 狠打 (hěn dǎ)
    to beat oneself up about sth (inf) 因某事而折磨自己 (yīn mǒushì ér zhémó zìjǐ)
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