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off the beaten path

/beet-n/US // ˈbit n //UK // (ˈbiːtən) //

非主流,偏僻的地方,偏僻地区

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
    • : much trodden; commonly used: a beaten path.
    • : defeated; vanquished; thwarted.
    • : overcome by exhaustion; fatigued by hard work, intense activity, etc.
    • : whipped up, pounded, pulverized, or the like: adding three beaten eggs.

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Examples

  • The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.

  • Last week, property owners were beaten by security guards as they confronted a real-estate developer who defrauded them.

  • Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.

  • For these infractions of the Holiday spirit, they were arrested and in some cases beaten in the street by Copenhagen police.

  • She said that everyone she has talked to who was detained was beaten.

  • Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.

  • Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • An old weather-beaten bear-hunter stepped forward, squirting out his tobacco juice with all imaginable deliberation.

  • A border feud at Reedsquair, between the English and Scottish marchmen, in which the former were completely beaten.