喜樂美語

核心畫面

The root picture you can hold for 'beat' is a hand or stick coming down on something again and again — not one blow, but a steady stream of blows. Almost everything 'beat' does is some version of this repeated striking: the strokes can stay literal (hitting, , metal), they can settle into a steady pulse (a heart, wings, a , the beat of music), or they can turn into 'striking your opponent down' until you win. Hold onto the repeated downward blow and the whole word opens up.

「beat」最底層的畫面，可以想成一隻手或一根棍子，一下又一下地落在某個東西上——不是打一次，而是連續、規律地打。後…更多收起「beat」最底層的畫面，可以想成一隻手或一根棍子，一下又一下地落在某個東西上——不是打一次，而是連續、規律地打。後面所有的意思幾乎都是這個「重複敲打」的變形：有時候打擊還很實在（揍人、敲鼓、捶金屬），有時候打擊穩定成一種規律的脈動（心跳、翅膀拍動、鼓點、音樂的節拍），有時候則變成「把對手一路打趴」直到你贏。先抓住這個「反覆落下的一擊」，整個字就會串起來。

原始詞典資料47 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

beatnoun詞源 1/biːt/

  • 1

    A stroke; a blow.

    • He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
  • 2

    A pulsation or throb.

    • a beat of the heart
    • the beat of the pulse
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

  • 4

    A rhythm.

    • I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
  • 5

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA rhythm.

  • 6

    The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

  • 7

    The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.

  • 8

    authorshipbroadcastingcommunicationsA short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    An area of a person's responsibility, especially

    • to walk the beat
    • There has been a bad business during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.
  • 10

    journalismmediaAn area of a person's responsibility, especially

    • As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.
  • 11

    datedAn act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

    • It's a beat on the whole country.
  • 12

    datedThat which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

    • the beat of him
  • 13

    obsoletedatedA precinct.

  • 14

    datedA place of habitual or frequent resort.

  • 15

    datedA place of habitual or frequent resort.

  • 16

    archaicA low cheat or swindler.

    • a dead beat
    • “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.
  • 17

    hobbieshuntinglifestyleThe act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

    • Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
  • 18

    fencinggovernmenthobbiesA smart tap on the adversary's blade.

  • 19

    slangA makeup look; compare beat one's face.

    • She made sure to give fans all the details about her beat in the caption.

beatverb詞源 1/biːt/

  • 1

    To hit; to strike.

    • As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
    • Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall […]
  • 2

    To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

    • He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
  • 3

    To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

    • […] the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door […]
    • The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.
  • 4

    To move with pulsation or throbbing.

    • A thousand hearts beat happily.
    • O heart, how fares it with thee now, ⁠That thou should’st fail from thy desire, ⁠Who scarcely darest to inquire, ‘What is it makes me beat so low?’
  • 5

    To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

    • Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
    • No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
  • 6

    nauticaltransportTo sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

  • 7

    To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

    • The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.
  • 8

    To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

    • Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To persuade the seller to reduce a price.

    • He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
  • 10

    To indicate by beating or drumming.

    • to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
  • 11

    To tread, as a path.

    • While I this unexampled task essay, / Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way, / Celestial Dove! divine assistance bring, / Sustain me on thy strong-extended wing,
  • 12

    To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

    • I know not why any one should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be a critick, or make speeches, and write dispatches in it.
  • 13

    To be in agitation or doubt.

    • to still my beating mind
  • 14

    To make a sound when struck.

    • The drums beat.
  • 15

    governmentmilitarypoliticsTo make a succession of strokes on a drum.

    • The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  • 16

    To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.

  • 17

    To arrive at a place before someone.

    • He beat me there.
    • The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
  • 18

    vulgarslangTo have sexual intercourse.

    • Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
    • Millie B gets ten shags a week. New day, different guy, that's just peek. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat. You can't name a guy that you haven't tried to beat.
  • 19

    slangTo rob; to cheat or scam.

    • He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
    • I already beat him, but he hasn't realized it yet.

beatverb詞源 2/biːt/

  • 1

    simple past tense of beat

beatadj詞源 2/biːt/

  • 1

    slangExhausted.

    • After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
    • I stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time of my life. Marylou and I walked around for miles, looking for food-money.
  • 2

    slangDilapidated, beat up.

    • Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
  • 3

    Having impressively attractive makeup.

    • Her face was beat for the gods!
  • 4

    slangBoring.

  • 5

    slangUgly.

beatnoun詞源 3/biːt/

  • 1

    A beatnik.

    • The beats were pioneers with no destination, changing the world one impulse at a time.

beatadj詞源 3/biːt/

  • 1

    Relating to the Beat Generation.

    • beat poetry

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。