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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie went by in the afternoon, and seeing Meg at the window, seemed suddenly possessed with a melodramatic fit, for he fell down on one knee in the snow, beat his breast, tore his hair, and clasped his hands imploringly, as if beg-ging some boon.
-- I won't beat you if you have got a pair of killing boots.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, noble ship," the angel seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo!the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off serenest azure is at hand."
-- And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.
-- Deacon Deuteronomy why Father Mapple himself couldn't beat it, and he's reckoned something.
-- But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.
-- Poor Alabama boy!On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child beat his hand upon his heart; and looked in his companion's face, with tears of real agony.
-- When they were all wearied out, and could tear and beat no longer, they dragged Oliver, struggling and shouting, but nothing daunted, into the dust-cellar, and there locked him up.
-- His heart beat quickly when he bethought himself of this; and he half res olved to turn back.
-- They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off.
-- Arter I was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made the thundering old jail so silent, that I could almost have beat my brains out against the iron plates of the door.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last time of these two had well-nigh been fatal to me, for the sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather dashed me, against a piece of rock, and that with such force, that it left me senseless, and indeed helpless, as to my own deliverance; for the blow taking my side and breast, beat the breath as it were quite out of my body; and had it returned again immediately, I must have been stran-gled in the water; but I recovered a little before the return of the waves, and seeing I should be covered again with the water, I resolved to hold fast by a piece of the rock, and so to hold my breath, if possible, till the wave went back.
-- My next concern was to get me a stone mortar to stamp or beat some corn in; for as to the mill, there was no thought of arriving at that perfection of art with one pair of hands.
-- When this had agitated my thoughts for two hours or more, with such violence that it set my very blood into a fer-ment, and my pulse beat as if I had been in a fever, merely with the extraordinary fervour of my mind about it, Na-ture - as if I had been fatigued and exhausted with the very thoughts of it - threw me into a sound sleep.
-- - My nation beat much for all that.
-- If your nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind roared round the house, and the rain beat against the windows; but Elinor, all happiness within, regarded it not.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not help but feel a little choked for breath--a little sick as her heart beat so fast.
-- Well, by the Lord, that did beat all!
-- The cabby beat his horse into a sort of imitation gallop which was fairly fast, however.
-- He repeatedly beat his foot upon the floor.
-- He shivered, stamped his feet, and beat his arms as he had seen other motormen do in the past, but said nothing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it.
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