beat about
殴打,敲打,击打,敲打着
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beat, beat·en or beat, beat·ing.
- : to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- : to dash against: rain beating the trees.
- : to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings.
- : to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo.
- : to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well.
- : to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares.
- : to produce by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him.
- : to make by repeated treading.
- : to strike repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them.
- : Music. to mark by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome.
- : Hunting. to scour, and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game.
- : to overcome in a contest; defeat.
- : to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda.
- : to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line.
- : to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job.
- : to defeat or frustrate, as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand.
- : to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values.
- : Slang. to swindle; cheat: He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal.
- : to escape or avoid.
- : Textiles. to strike into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed.
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beat, beat·en or beat, beat·ing.
- : to strike repeated blows; pound.
- : to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster.
- : to dash; strike: rain beating against the windows.
- : to resound under blows, as a drum.
- : to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat?
- : to play, as on a drum.
- : to scour cover for game.
- : Physics. to make a beat or beats.
- : to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat.
- : Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled.
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- : a stroke or blow.
- : the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums.
- : a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute.
- : the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement.
- : one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat.
- : Music. the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music.a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance.
- : Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone.
- : Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry.
- : Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations.
- : Journalism. the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals.Compare exclusive, scoop. Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering.
- : a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi.
- : Informal. beatnik.
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- : Informal. exhausted; worn out.
- : of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks.
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- : beat about, to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers.Nautical.to tack into the wind.
- : beat back, to force back; compel to withdraw: to beat back an attacker.
- : beat down, to bring into subjection; subdue.Informal.to persuade to lower the price of something: His first price was too high, so we tried to beat him down.
- : beat off, to ward off; repulse: We had to beat off clouds of mosquitoes.Slang: Vulgar.to masturbate.
- : beat out, Informal.to defeat; win or be chosen over: to beat out the competition.Carpentry.to cut.to produce hurriedly, especially by writing or typing: There are three days left to beat out the first draft of the novel.Baseball. to make into a hit: He beat out a weak grounder to third.
- : beat up, Also beat up on .to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash: A gang of toughs beat him up on the way home from school. In the third round the champion really began to beat up on the challenger.British Informal.to find or gather; scare up: I'll beat up some lunch for us while you make out the shopping list.
Phrases
- beat a dead horse
- beat all
- beat a path to someone's door
- beat a retreat
- beat around the bush
- beat back
- beat down
- beaten track
- beat hollow
- beat into one's head
- beat it
- beat off
- beat one's brains out
- beat one's head against the wall
- beat out
- beats me
- beat someone at his or her own game
- beat the air
- beat the band
- beat the bushes for
- beat the clock
- beat the drum for
- beat the Dutch
- beat the living daylights out of
- beat the meat
- beat the pants off
- beat the rap
- beat time
- beat to it
- beat up
- dead beat
- heart misses a beat
- if you can't beat them, join them
- march to a different beat
- miss a beat
- off the beaten track
- pound the pavement (a beat)
- to beat the band
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
With some limitations on the usual nonconference games that help poll voters gauge teams, Gonzaga managed to get wins over ranked teams Virginia, West Virginia and Iowa, plus Kansas and Auburn, while Baylor beat No.
Many of the competitions were spectacles, drawing large crowds with elaborate lights and window-rattling beats, but the sport was driven by independent event promoters without any movement trained on the Olympics.
They played a heck of a game defensively and offensively to beat us.
For freshwater paddling, it’s hard to beat the scenery at the mile-long Jordan Pond.
“It’s the worse I’ve been beaten in a long time,” Mahomes said.
He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.
It went into remission, but it would resurface in 2011; and Scott was able to beat it once again.
But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat.
It may have been the reason why Goldwater beat Rockefeller by three points, and effectively sewed up the GOP nomination.
Despite the scandal, Grimm beat his Democratic opponent by 18 points in November.
Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
His face flushed with annoyance, and taking off his soft hat he began to beat it impatiently against his leg as he walked.
The pulse in Louis's temples beat hard; yet he was determined not to anticipate, but make Wharton explain himself.
To be sure, he hadn't seen Mrs. Robin go, but he had heard the beat of her wings as she began her flight.
We should easily beat this in America with anything like equal facilities, and without charging the British price—£4 7s.