落在人身上的一頓打
這一支是字面本身：重複的是拳頭，承受的是人。也是整個字最重、最嚴肅的用法。
noun · B1
An act of hitting a person or an animal many times, as a punishment or in a fight. It is countable: you give someone a beating, or someone gets a beating.
毆打／一頓打
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: not one blow, but blow after blow after blow. The -ing takes the repeating and wraps it into a thing you can name. What changes across the word is only what is repeating and who feels it. Fists on a person, and the word is an event you can count: a beating. Goals going in one after another, and the losing side says it took a beating, without anyone being touched. A heart, wings, rain on a roof, and the on-and-on is all that is left: the beating of the drums.
可以想成不是打一下，而是一下、一下、再一下。-ing 把這個「一直重複」包成一個可以講的東西。整個字變的只有兩件事：…更多收起
可以想成不是打一下，而是一下、一下、再一下。-ing 把這個「一直重複」包成一個可以講的東西。整個字變的只有兩件事：在重複的是什麼，還有誰在承受。拳頭落在人身上，它就是一件可以數的事：a beating。分數一球一球進來，輸的那邊說 took a beating，卻沒有人真的挨打。換成心臟、翅膀、打在屋頂上的雨，剩下的就只有那個「不停」：the beating of the drums。From the word’s history
Built from the verb beat plus -ing, which turns the repeated action into something you can name.
由動詞 beat 加上 -ing 組成，把重複的動作變成一個可以指稱的東西。這也是為什麼三個用法都還留著「一下接一下」的味道。
Wiktionary entry for beating (packet etymology_text: By surface analysis, beat + -ing.)
Three branches
輸得像挨了一頓打
把挨打的畫面整個借走：被打得站不起來的樣子，拿來講輸得很慘。動作沒發生，只剩那個「被打重了」的感覺。
noun · B2
If a person or a team takes a beating, they lose very badly in a game or competition. People also say that a business, a plan or a price took a beating when events hurt it badly.
慘敗／受重創
一下一下的跳動與拍打
把「重複」留下，把「傷害」拿掉。剩下的就是那個規律的一下一下，聽得到、感覺得到。
noun · B2
The steady, repeated movement or sound of something that beats — a heart, a pair of wings, a drum, or rain falling on a roof. It almost always appears as the beating of something.
跳動／拍打聲
原始詞典資料4 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。
beatingnoun/ˈbiːtɪŋ/
- 1
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
- the beating of a drum
- secret beatings of prisoners
- 2
A heavy defeat or setback.
- To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.
- 3
The pulsation of the heart.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。