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单词 beat one's breast
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beat one's breast

Make an exaggerated show of sorrow, despair, or regret.At the peak of her ambiguous angst, she beats her breast in sappy mourning upon the death of her father....
  • I bet you are wailing and gnashing your teeth and beating your breast with many small whips as you ponder this.
  • In contrast to Antony's desire to blame anyone but himself, Cleopatra spends much of her first speech beating her breast.
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