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A heartbeat is the sound or movement of the heart beating as it pumps blood - "I could hear my heartbeat." It's also used to mean something central or essential to a place, like "the market is the heartbeat of the town." The phrase "in a heartbeat" means immediately, without hesitation.
心跳
組成heart + beat - the beating of the heart.
原始詞典資料5 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。
heartbeatnoun/ˈhɑːtˌbiːt/
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One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- The policeman waited for a heartbeat in vain.
- He alone gives me such heartbeats.
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The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
- If your heartbeat doesn't normalize soon, consult a doctor!
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A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- Music is the heartbeat of the people.
- Dream Body Recovery is just one of countless recovery houses that have cropped up in Miami, which has become the heartbeat of the B.B.L. boom in the United States. The average price of a B.B.L. nationwide is around $5,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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A very short space of time; an instant.
- The ambulance arrived in a heartbeat.
- Cause I love you more than life Take a bullet for you I swear, I swear In a heartbeat
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computingengineeringmathematicsA periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
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。