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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My heart beat as if it would break.
-- Never did a tail beat the sea with such violence.
-- What a scene!We were dumb; our hearts beat fast before this shipwreck, taken as it were from life and photographed in its last moments.
-- Her screw, like a cetacean's tail, beat the waves slowly.
-- He discovered a coco-tree, beat down some of the fruit, broke them, and we drunk the milk and ate the nut with a satisfaction that protested against the ordinary food on the Nautilus.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soft sharp boughs beat upon him, as he moved in keen pangs against them, threw little cold showers of drops on his belly, and beat his loins with their clusters of soft-sharp needles.
-- The connecting chains were grinding and squeaking as the tension varied, the mare pawed and struck away mechanically now, her terror fulfilled in her, for now the man encompassed her; her paws were blind and pathetic as she beat the air, the man closed round her, and brought her down, almost as if she were part of his own physique.
-- Sometimes she beat her wings like a new Daphne, turning not into a tree but a machine.
-- And in another second, he was singing softly to himself, and dancing a grotesque step-dance in front of her, his limbs and body shaking loose, his face flickering palely, a constant thing, whilst his feet beat a rapid mocking tattoo, and his body seemed to hang all loose and quaking in between, like a shadow.
-- Her heart beat with anxiety, to see how beautiful it would be.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She beat Hareton, or any child, at a good passionate fit of crying.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through all this sneering talk, I was made to feel the threat of death that overhung me, and my cheeks burned and my heart beat painfully in my breast.
-- And then, making a great effort: "Shipmates," he cried, "I'm here to get that stuff, and I'll not be beat by man or devil.
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