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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he said, 'Pandarus, where is now your bow, your winged arrows, and your renown as an archer, in respect of which no man here can rival you nor is there any in Lycia that can beat you?
-- Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay him, and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield.
-- When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If this don't beat cock-fighting!Most remarkable! And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, 'arf a mile away!Not a bit of you visible except " He scrutinised the apparently empty space keenly.
-- I beat my hands on the wall with rage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My heart beat quickly.
-- As they did so, they swayed from side to side in the oddest way, and beat their hands upon their knees; and I followed their example.
-- I was on the slope above the bushes; Montgomery and Moreau beat along the beach beneath.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus and thus, then, do we beat dogs when we are men.
-- He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
-- Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.'
-- He beat the buffaloes with a long, polished bamboo, and told Kamya, one of the boys, to graze the cattle by them-selves, while he went on with the buffaloes, and to be very careful not to stray away from the herd.
-- He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy's father beat the dead Karait.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hawk-eye soon got another enemy within reach of his arm, and with one sweep of his formidable weapon he beat down the slight and inartificial defenses of his antagonist, crushing him to the earth with the blow.
-- The truce still ex-isted, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
-- 'The cunning devils know half the trade already, for they beat the time with their tails, as you heard just now; and in good time it was, too, or 'kill-deer' might have sounded the first note among them.
-- The mimic animal, which had advanced a little, retired slowly in his front, until it arrived again at the pass, when, rearing on his hinder legs, it beat the air with its paws, in the manner practised by its brutal prototype.
-- No; let my children wait without, and if the spirit appears beat him down with clubs.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I always tried my best to beat Strickland, because he was a player who despised the opponent he vanquished; his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear.
-- The sun-baked streets seemed to give back the heat that had beat down on them during the day, and the passers-by dragged their feet along them wearily.
-- She tried to beat her head against the wall.
-- His heart began to beat quickly, for he guessed at once that it was one of Strickland's pictures.
-- When we were students he beat me all along the line.
扩展阅读：