His father beat the disobedient boy. 他的父亲打那个不听话的男孩。
We heard the beat of the drum. 我们听到鼓声。
He's alive his heart is still beating. 他还活著--心脏还在跳。
beat beaten
[ noun ]
a regular route for a sentry or policeman
<noun.location> in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name
the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
<noun.event> he could feel the beat of her heart
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
<noun.communication> the piece has a fast rhythm the conductor set the beat
a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
<noun.phenomenon>
a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
<noun.person>
the sound of stroke or blow
<noun.event> he heard the beat of a drum
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
<noun.communication>
a regular rate of repetition
<noun.attribute> the cox raised the beat
a stroke or blow
<noun.act> the signal was two beats on the steam pipe
the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
<noun.act> [ verb ]
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
<adj.all> was all in at the end of the day so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere bushed after all that exercise I'm dead after that long trip
Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3.
2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior.
4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton.
5. To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore.
6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold.
7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke.
9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.
10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.
{To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
{To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.
{To beat off}, to repel or drive back.
{To beat out}, to extend by hammering.
{To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.'' --South.
{To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
{To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.
{To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
{To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
{To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3.
2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior.
4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton.
5. To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore.
6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold.
7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke.
9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.
10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.
{To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
{To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.
{To beat off}, to repel or drive back.
{To beat out}, to extend by hammering.
{To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.'' --South.
{To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
{To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.
{To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
{To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
{To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Beat \Beat\ (b[=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be['a]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[=o]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36.
They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3.
2. To punish by blows; to thrash.
3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior.
4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton.
5. To tread, as a path.
Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore.
6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish, defeat, or conquer; to surpass or be superior to.
He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott.
For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold.
7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]
8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke.
9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc.
10. to baffle or stump; to defy the comprehension of (a person); as, it beats me why he would do that.
11. to evade, avoid, or escape (blame, taxes, punishment); as, to beat the rap (be acquitted); to beat the sales tax by buying out of state.
{To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.]
{To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition.
{To beat off}, to repel or drive back.
{To beat out}, to extend by hammering.
{To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. ``Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.'' --South.
{To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
{To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot.
{To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation.
{To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot.
{To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.
Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22.
2. To move with pulsation or throbbing.
A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron.
3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden.
They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow.
The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8.
Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon.
4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic]
To still my beating mind. --Shak.
5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
{A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress.
{To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison.
{To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously.
{To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag.
{To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.
{To beat the rap}, to be acquitted of an accusation; -- especially, by some sly or deceptive means, rather than to be proven innocent.
Beat \Beat\, a. Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.]
Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. --Dickens.
Beat \Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow.
He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. --Dryden.
2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
3. (Mus.) (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re["e]nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8.
5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat; analogously, for newspaper reporters, the subject or territory that they are assigned to cover; as, the Washington beat. [1913 Webster +PJC]
6. A place of habitual or frequent resort.
7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat; also, {deadbeat}. [Low]
{Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc.
{Beat of a watch}, or {Beat of a clock}, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the stroke is at equal or unequal intervals.
Beat \Beat\, n. 1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as: (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; -- also called a {scoop} or {exclusive}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. ``Driven out in the course of a beat.'' --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them. --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See {Shovel}.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R. Drake.
5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops. [PJC]
8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a {beat}. [Newspaper or laboratory cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [informal] [PJC]
{Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
{Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Undulation \Un`du*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ondulation.] 1. The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. --Evelyn.
3. (Mus.) (a) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin. (b) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also {beat}.
4. (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
The driver ran into a police station to escape the crowd that pursued him, but enraged citizens stormed the station, dragged him out and beat him unconscious, the state radio reported.
Delta spokesman Neil Monroe said he mentioned the Eastern program only reluctantly, because Delta views its program as a systemwide deal designed to beat the competition in many markets.
With Giesler's help, he beat the federal charges.
During sentencing Tuesday, Ms. McMurray told District Judge Sam Kiser that Harris and his co-defendant, Ricky Wilson, beat her, tied her to a chair and ransacked her apartment.
When the ratio narrows, the allure of bonds weakens because only a small gain in the stock market is needed to beat the return offered by bonds.
Convinced by Ohio Republicans that Mr. Blackwell was the man to beat Charles Luken, Washington party officials recruited the HUD official for the job.
On Monday, long lines of would-be voters were lined up at registration centers to beat the deadline.
"It's a horse race every year," said Forbes spokesman Ray Healey, describing his magazine's rush to beat its rival. "Information of this kind is old in a matter of minutes.
A 63-year-old real estate agent who "always needs money" randomly picked numbers from the front page of a newspaper to beat the 14 million-to-1 odds for Florida's Lotto, winning a U.S. record $55 million.
On the last cut, "Slash and Burn," he bites hard, but he still offers a head-bobbing beat.
Strutt & Parker in Exeter is selling a beat on the Taw in north Devon (20-year average: 23 salmon and 42 sea trout) for Pounds 175,000. A cottage is Pounds 75,000 extra.
At the shareholders' meeting, Roman said management considered "everything from white knights to white squires to recapitalization to leveraged buyouts" but found it could not beat WPP's all-cash offer.
"I didn't beat up that woman.
Attorneys say it helps them beat deadlines as well as traffic in car-clogged California, where papers usually are delivered by messenger or by lawyers themselves.
WHEN IT comes to bedlinen I take the unfashionable view that it is hard to beat white.
But the firm concludes that high-quality "junior blue chips" are in good position to beat, rather than trail, the big-name stocks over the next five years.
Typically, money managers would earn meager fees unless they could beat market indexes.
Buyers of catastrophe reinsurance can still beat prices down.
The winners beat odds of 12.9 million to 1 to pick the six winning numbers from 1 to 54: 3, 14, 32, 40, 46 and 54.
The four clock faces on Big Ben clanked to a halt for three hours Friday, and London's heart seemed to skip a beat.
In 1950, he beat Helen Gahagan Douglas for the U.S. Senate with an equally sleazy red-baiting campaign.
When we say 'Brazil beat Holland' we feel we are talking not just about their soccer teams but about the countries themselves. 'In the World Cup, all we lost is two games.
The British No 1 has come through two rounds of qualifying and must beat South Africa's Byron Talbot to earn a place in the main draw.
"He might let the public just beat on them for a while," Mr. Brantley said.
Gradually beat in 6 oz of diced and chilled unsalted butter, piece by piece, until amalgamated to a hot, smooth and creamy sauce, rather like a thin Hollandaise. Add two or more teaspoons of orange juice to taste and season with salt and pepper.
But Mr. Kolter beat Mr. Atkinson that year by a margin of 3-2, and no challenger has done much better since.
Several punched and beat him and he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, his face bloody.
But Mr Robert Baker, senior consultant at Mercer Fraser, believes the underlying investment objectives are very similar in many cases. He says: 'The objective of most money purchase schemes is likely to be to beat the median.
The prosecution and Nussbaum's lawyer have maintained that she was intimidated and virtually brainwashed by Steinberg, who frequently beat her.
Some of the newer, more advanced defibrillators include a pacemaker that often can re-establish a regular heart beat without a shock.