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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea roared as it beat over the reef.
-- No description can give an idea of the terrific violence of the gale as it beat upon the unprotected coast.
-- It was necessary to beat a path, which would in the future form the most direct road to Prospect Heights and Mount Franklin.
-- As to the Chimneys, it must have been absolutely uninhabitable, for the sea, passing over the islet, would beat furiously against it.
-- As a precaution the guns were loaded with ball, and Top, who led the van, received orders to beat about the edge of the forest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You dog,' snarled Quilp, 'I'll beat you with an iron rod, I'll scratch you with a rusty nail, I'll pinch your eyes, if you talk to me I will.'
-- 'I'll beat you to a pulp, you dogs,' said Quilp, vainly endeavoring to get near either of them for a parting blow.
-- Not to beat about the bush (for the advantages of the scheme would take a week to tell) what's to prevent your marrying her?'
-- At this momentous crisis, Miss Cheggs proved herself a vigourous and useful ally, for not confining herself to expressing by scornful smiles a contempt for Mr Swiveller's accomplishments, she took every opportunity of whispering into Miss Sophy's ear expressions of condolence and sympathy on her being worried by such a ridiculous creature, declaring that she was frightened to death lest Alick should fall upon, and beat him, in the fulness of his wrath, and entreating Miss Sophy to observe how the eyes of the said Alick gleamed with love and fury; passions, it may be observed, which being too much for his eyes rushed into his nose also, and suffused it with a crimson glow.
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maria Ivanovna said that the girl ought to be taught to work that she might become a useful servant, was exacting, punished, and even beat her when in bad humor.
-- His wife became aware of it, and when, on one occasion, she found them both in the room, she fell on Katiousha and began to beat her.
-- His heart beat so violently that he could hear it; his breathing at times stopped, at others it escaped in a heavy sigh.
-- First were brought out and hung on a rope uniforms and strange fur garments which were never used by anybody; then carpets, furniture, and the porter, with his assistant, rolling up the sleeves on their muscular arms, began to beat these things, and the odor of camphor rose all over the house.
-- The clerk, Vasilieff, took the chamberman's part, saying that there was no law permitting an official to beat prisoners.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now, the smoke of the fire beat over towards me, and it must have made me heavy of a sudden.
-- "At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them.
-- I beat the ground with my hands, and got up and sat down again, and wandered here and there, and again sat down.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on.
-- And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: 'The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town.Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown;Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.'
-- 'Why, I beat you all round the town, you chicken!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun beat full upon them.
-- 'Ah,' says he, 'you can go ashore, if you like, and stay,' he says; 'but as for the ship, she'll beat up for more, by thunder!'
-- Right in front, the doctor was pursuing his assailant down the hill, and just as my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard and sent him sprawling on his back with a great slash across the face.
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