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beat (obj) HITbi:tvpast simple beat, past part beaten H9bi:YtEn, $-TEn or beatto hit repeatedly (with a hand, stick, or other object)打，敲They saw him beating his dog with a stick. [T]他们看见他用棍子打他的狗。The child had been brutally/savagely beaten. [T]那孩子给人毒打了一顿。The muggers beat her to death. [T]抢劫者把她打死了。He was beaten senseless. [T + obj + adj]他被打得失去知觉。Her husband had beaten her black and blue. [T + obj + adj]她丈夫把她打得青一块紫一块。She beat the drum slowly. [T]她慢慢地敲鼓。The rain was beating (down) incessantly on the tin roof. [I always + adv/prep]雨不断地打在白铁皮屋顶上。The tropical sun beat down mercilessly (= shone with great heat).热带的烈日无情地照耀着。To beat someone down is to persuade them to charge you a lower amount of money for something.杀某人的价He wanted ￡50 for the bike, but I managed to beat him down ( to ￡35).这辆自行车他开价50英镑，我杀价（杀到35英镑）。The firemen beat back the blaze (= stopped it from spreading). [M]消防队员控制了火势。She beat off her attacker (= made him go away) by hitting him with her handbag. [M]她用手提包打退攻击者。They beat out the fire (= stopped it from burning) by striking it with a blanket. [M]他们用毯子将火扑灭。Two men beat a woman up (= hit her repeatedly and with great force) while she was on her way home last night. [M]昨天晚上那女子在回家路上遭到两名男子的毒打。The men claimed that the police had beaten the confession out of them (= hit them until they admitted that they had committed a crime). [T]他们声称因遭警察毒打而招供。To make an omelette you must first beat (= mix repeatedly using a utensil) the eggs. [T]摊蛋饼前你得先打蛋。If you beat a path through an area where long grass or bushes grow closely together, you form a path by hitting the plants with your hands or an object, or by stepping on them.开辟道路We beat a path through the undergrowth. [T]我们在下层林丛中开辟道路。To beat a path to someone's door is to be eager to buy or obtain something from them.急于买到或得到某物I tried to sell my old bike by advertising it in the local paper, but I didn't have a lot of people beating a path to my door.我在当地报纸上刊登广告欲卖掉旧自行车，可是求购者并不多。To beat about the bush/(Am also) beat around the bush is to avoid talking about what is important.绕弯子说话"Don't beat about the bush--get to the point!" she said impatiently.“别绕弯子了----直截了当地说！”她不耐烦地说。Well, not to beat about the bush, I ended up offering him the money.唉，坦率地说，我最后还是把钱给了他。If you beat someone's brains out, you hit them with great force.痛打Do that again, and I'll beat your brains out.你再干那事小心我揍扁你。To beat your brains out is to spend a lot of time worrying about or thinking about how to deal with a problem.绞尽脑汁I've been beating my brains out for hours trying to decide what to do next.我已苦思多时想要决定接下来做什么。To beat your breast/chest is to show great sadness or guilt in an obvious or public way.捶胸悲叹There's no point in beating your breast about losing the money--you won't get it back.钱已经丢了，你再怎么难过也无济于事----它是不会回来的。(slang) Beat it! (= Go away!)滚开！She burst into tears, so I beat a (hasty) retreat (= ran away from something unpleasant).她哭了起来，于是我（立刻）走开。"Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes" (from the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865)“对你的小儿子言语粗暴，他打喷嚏时揍他”（选自刘易斯·卡罗尔的《艾丽斯漫游奇境》） Food prep-aration
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