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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings bore him along with scarcely the slightest effort, for it is the prerogative of large birds to fly with calm majesty, while insects have to beat their wings a thousand times a second.
-- Thalcave went first to beat the bushes and frighten away the cholinas, a most dangerous species of viper, the bite of which kills an ox in less than an hour.
-- It was necessary to beat a retreat.
-- Let us beat the bushes all round the wagon."
-- The two faithful guardians kept close watch, bearing philosophically the rain and wind that beat on their faces.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him.
-- Sir Henry had flung it open, and the cold night wind beat in upon our faces.
-- The lamp beat upon his face, and so intent was it and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut clas-sical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I imagine that various thoughts must beat loud and fast through his head all unfinished ones, and strange, funny thoughts, very likely! like this, for in-stance: 'That man is looking at me, and he has a wart on his forehead!and the executioner has burst one of his but-tons, and the lowest one is all rusty!'
-- There, the sight of General Epanchin among the guests, caused many of them to beat a hasty retreat into the adjoining room, the 'boxer' and 'beggar' being among the first to go.
-- 'As to his being a rogue, he is assuredly that, and I am not saying it because he beat you.
-- 'He beat me, he thrashed me unmercifully!'
-- He had no idea that his heart could beat so pain-fully.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this he beat him with his staff about the back and shoulders till he dropped and fell a-weeping.
-- The bossed shields beat one upon another, and there was a tramp as of a great multitude death-cry and shout of tri-umph of slain and slayers, and the earth ran red with blood.
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 hadn't got far when I hear a man say: 'We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out.
-- I did wish the fool would think to beat a tin pan, and beat it all the time, but he never did, and it was the still places be-tween the whoops that was making the trouble for me.
-- They stood there a-thinking and scratching their heads a minute, and the duke he bust into a kind of a little raspy chuckle, and says: 'It does beat all how neat the niggers played their hand.
-- You do beat all for natural stupid-ness.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Geppetto ran after him but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds, his two wooden feet, as they beat on the stones of the street, making as much noise as twenty peasants in wooden shoes.
-- Geppetto, no doubt, will beat him unmercifully, he is so mean and cruel!"
-- And as he walked with hurried steps, his heart beat with an excited tic, tac, tic, tac, just as if it were a wall clock, and his busy brain kept thinking: "What if, instead of a thousand, I should find two thousand?
-- He beat the water with his paws to hold himself up, but the harder he tried, the deeper he sank.
-- Pinocchio's heart beat fast, and then faster and faster.
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