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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet when he had written the letters, he could not help feeling misgivings in spite of his youthful ambition; his heart beat fast, and he trembled.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
-- Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every ar-tery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
-- It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
-- 'My heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of trial, which would decide my hopes or realize my fears.
-- I hailed the darkness that shut Ireland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a fever-ish joy when I reflected that I should soon see Geneva.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She never did beat Boyd much because he's the oldest and besides he's the runt ofthe litter," said Stuart, proud of his six feet two.
-- "I'm going to beat your hide off for that," cried Stuart fiercely.
-- It beat with odd littlejerks; her hands were cold, and a feeling of disaster oppressed her.
-- she thought, and her heart beat faster.
-- That kind of queerness is easy to understand, for sure, and but for the grace of God Gerald O'Harawould be having all those faults!And I don't mean that Ashley would run off with another woman, if you were hiswife, or beat you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll beat the shivers so far, I'll bet you."
-- Thus, you were to hammer boys round--Old Clem!With a thump and a sound--Old Clem!Beat it out, beat it out--Old Clem!With a clink for the stout--Old Clem!Blow the fire, blow the fire--Old Clem!Roaring dryer, soaring higher--Old Clem!One day soon after the appearance of the chair, Miss Havisham suddenly saying to me, with the impatient movement of her fingers, "There, there, there!Sing!"
-- Not that he ever said anything, or did anything, openly importing hostility; I only noticed that he always beat his sparks in my direction, and that whenever I sang Old Clem, he came in out of time.
-- Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down,--which were the last stages on her road to frenzy.
-- Orlick sometimes growled, "Beat it out, beat it out,--Old Clem!With a clink for the stout,--Old Clem!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the walls; the spit was standing still; the butler had the 36 Grimms' Fairy Talesjug of ale at his lips, going to drink a draught; the maid sat with a fowl in her lap ready to be plucked; and the cook in the kitchen was still holding up her hand, as if she was go-ing to beat the boy.
-- Then he fell upon them with the stick and beat them one after another, crying, 'There, you idle vagabonds, you have got what you deserve; are you satisfied now!'
-- Then he seized an iron bar and beat the old man till he moaned and entreated him to stop, when he would give him great riches.
-- Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the en-emy, and beat down all who opposed him.
-- They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a ha-zel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found 17by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up, with great dexterity, one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out the top; I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
-- I was told that a great court lady, who had several children, is married to the prime min-ister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest pal-ace of the island, went down to Lagado on the pretence of health, there hid herself for several months, till the king sent a warrant to search for her; and she was found in an obscure eating-house all in rags, having pawned her clothes 207to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken, much against her will.
-- He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his de-tractors reported, 'he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;' neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposi-tion in the mathematics.
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