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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A general confessed, in my presence, 'that he got a victory purely by the force of cowardice and ill conduct;' and an admiral, 'that, for want of proper intelligence, he beat the enemy, to whom he in-tended to betray the fleet.'
-- I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he beat the dog, and I was frightened, and said, "Father, father!Pray don't hurt the creature who is so fond of you!O Heaven forgive you, father, stop!"
-- To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
-- What do you say;' Mr. Bounderby, with his hat in his hand, gave a beat upon the crown at every little division of his sentences, as if it were a tambourine; 'to his being seen night after night watching the Bank? to his lurking about there after dark? To its striking Mrs. Sparsit that he could be lurking for no good To her calling Bitzer's attention to him, and their both taking notice of him And to its appearing on inquiry to-day that he was also noticed by the neighbours?'
-- The horthe danthed the polka till he wath dead beat (he would have walthed if he hadn't been in harneth), and then I gave him the word and he went to thleep comfortable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A certain undefined hope, vague and shapeless as yet, made my heart beat wildly.
-- The whole panorama of the world's life before the historic period, seemed to be born over again, and mine was the only human heart that beat in this unpeopled world!There were no more seasons; there were no more climates; the natural heat of the world increased unceasingly, and neutralized that of the great radiant Sun.
-- My heart beat wildly.
-- My heart beat at the idea, but it was absolutely necessary to know on what we had to depend.
-- My heart beat wildly, for I was conscious that, somehow or other, the fearful monster had smelled me out and was peering about with his hideous eyes to try and discover my whereabouts.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It made her heart beat violently for no reason.
-- You've got to beat your way in.
-- Anyhow keep the chil-dren away!But there you are, grown-ups are worse than the children: and the old ones beat the band.
-- The keeper put a stone under the wheel, and went to sit on the bank, his heart beat and his face white with the effort, semi-con-scious.
-- The rain beat bruisingly outside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the jailer, turning his basket upside down to beat the crumbs out, 'I have expended all the money I received; here is the note of it, and that's a thing accomplished.
-- While it roared through the steeple of St George's Church, and twirled all the cowls in the neighbourhood, it made a swoop to beat the Southwark smoke into the jail; and, plunging down the chimneys of the few early collegians who were yet lighting their fires, half suffocated them.
-- Her lips were a little parted, as if her heart beat faster than usual.
-- He felt, from the tone in which she spoke, that she was glancing up at him with those parted lips; therefore he looked before him, rather than make her heart beat quicker still by embarrassing her afresh.
-- Then beat an imaginary child, and said, 'Broom-handles and pokers.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Jo blushed till she couldn't blush any redder, and her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said.
-- 'Yankees have a trick of being generous to their enemies,' said Jo, with a look that made the lad redden, 'especially when they beat them,' she added, as, leaving Kate's ball un-touched, she won the game by a clever stroke.
-- Jo doos beat all for goin ahead, but she don't stop to cal'k'late fust, and you never know where she's like to bring up.
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