beat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 敲打, 搅拌, 胜, 心跳，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped.
-- But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.
-- It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs Cratchit, look-ing slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah.
-- Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as could have told you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hearts of the passengers beat loud enough perhaps to be heard; but at any rate, the quiet pause was audibly expressive of people out of breath, and holding the breath, and having the pulses quickened by expectation.
-- The Doctor shaded his forehead with his hand, and beat his foot nervously on the ground.
-- Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead, beat his foot ner-vously on the ground.
-- What, indeed, with his hand putting aside the golden hair from the cheek, and his other hand against the heart that beat for him!
-- All around outside, too, it beat the walls with a deep, hoarse roar, from which, occasionally, some partial shouts of tumult broke and leaped into the air like spray.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If the evening were but come!If the tapers were but lighted!And then I wonder what will happen!Perhaps the other trees from the forest will come to look at me!Perhaps the sparrows will beat against the win-dowpanes!I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments!'
-- Oh, how Gerda's heart beat with anxiety and longing!It 104 Andersen's Fairy Taleswas just as if she had been about to do something wrong; and yet she only wanted to know if little Kay was there.
-- He flew into a tree, and beat his black wings as long as he could see the carriage, that shone from afar like a sunbeam.
-- And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings.
-- And the rain beat on the dock-leaves to make drum-music for their sake, and the sun shone in order to give the burdock forest a color for their sakes; and they were very happy, and the whole family was happy; for they, indeed were so.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- "Let it be!Don't insist!I'll beat you!"
-- The princess and Kitty beat a hasty retreat, while the colonel joined the crowd to find out what was the matter.
-- While he was turning him over, conscious of the huge emaciated arm about his neck, Kitty swiftly and noiselessly turned the pillow, beat it up and settled in it the sick man's head, smoothing back his hair, which was sticking again to his moist brow.
-- shouted Levin, feeling his heart beginning to beat more violently; and all of a sudden, as though some sort of shutter had been drawn back from his straining ears, all sounds, confused but loud, began to beat on his hearing, losing all sense of distance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg, after bidding good-bye to his whist partners, left the steamer, gave his servant several errands to do, urged it upon him to be at the station promptly at eight, and, with his regular step, which beat to the second, like an astronomical clock, directed his steps to the passport office.
-- He looked up to behold three enraged priests, who forthwith fell upon him; tore off his shoes, and began to beat him with loud, savage exclamations.
-- Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his travelling companion although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature.
-- All on board feared that it could not be done, and every one Phileas Fogg, no doubt, excepted felt his heart beat with impatience.
-- The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.
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