beating
n. 打,敲打; [纸] 打浆; 脉搏; 失败
vt. (心脏等)跳动(beat的现在分词)
If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
...the savage beating of a black motorist by white police officers...
白人警察对一名黑人驾车者的野蛮殴打。
The team secured pictures of prisoners showing signs of severe beatings.
这个小组搞到了一些显示囚犯有被毒打痕迹的照片。
If something such as a business, a political party, or a team takes a beating, it is defeated by a large amount in a competition or election.
Our firm has taken a terrible beating in recent years.
我们公司近几年败得一塌糊涂。
If you say that something will take some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made.
For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
单从规模和气势来说,肯特的利兹城堡独领风骚。
1. the act of overcoming or outdoing
2. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
1. expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart;
take a beating
(非正式)遭受损失(或伤害)
take some (或 a lot of) beating
(非正式)难以超过
The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.
那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打.
The pregnant woman needed to breathe deeply when her heart was beating with such fierceness.
当这位孕妇的心如此猛烈地跳动时,她需要做深呼吸.
I felt my heart beating.
我觉得我的心在跳.
To argue with him is like beating the air.
和他辩论是白费气力.
The police are beating the town for the escapee.
警方正在镇上搜捕那个逃犯.