英语词汇“to beat down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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1. To force or drive downward by beating or hammering (cf. 15).

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2. To batter or break down by heavy blows, to demolish, knock down (cf. 17).

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3. figurative. To overthrow (an institution, opinion, etc.).

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4. To force down (a price) by haggling (cf. 18). With these cf. abate n.

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5. intransitive. To come down with violence, like rain blown by the wind, the sun's rays, etc. (cf. 6).

6. (see 19).

7. To reduce by beating (cf. 22).

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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat down or away

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c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 180 The knightes..Brentyn and betyn doun all the big houses.

1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii And fynally to beate downe Satan vnder our fete.

1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Salvation, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 30 This doctrine..beateth down the vain glory of man.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xii. 50 Fightes he to beate downe the Gates.

1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 28 Democracie hath beene bette doune, and Monarchie established.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 63 The enemie with great slaughter still beaten downe.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Nov. (1974) VIII. 522 To alter my office by beating down the wall and making me a fayre window..there.

1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) IV. 413 Thus monopoly will beat down prices.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xvii. 280 One whole side of the castle had been beaten down.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 107 For the purpose of keeping the sea from beating down.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. xi. 273 The fields that were so sadly beaten down a little while ago are now standing in fine yellow shocks.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 113 The sun..beat down upon us with intense force.

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释义	> as lemmas to beat down to beat down Thesaurus » 1. To force or drive downward by beating or hammering (cf. 15). Thesaurus » 2. To batter or break down by heavy blows, to demolish, knock down (cf. 17). Thesaurus » 3. figurative. To overthrow (an institution, opinion, etc.). Thesaurus » Categories » 4. To force down (a price) by haggling (cf. 18). With these cf. abate n. Thesaurus » 5. intransitive. To come down with violence, like rain blown by the wind, the sun's rays, etc. (cf. 6). 6. (see 19). 7. To reduce by beating (cf. 22). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat down or away to beat downc1540 bate1601 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 180 The knightes..Brentyn and betyn doun all the big houses. 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii And fynally to beate downe Satan vnder our fete. 1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Salvation, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 30 This doctrine..beateth down the vain glory of man. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xii. 50 Fightes he to beate downe the Gates. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 28 Democracie hath beene bette doune, and Monarchie established. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 63 The enemie with great slaughter still beaten downe. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 8 Nov. (1974) VIII. 522 To alter my office by beating down the wall and making me a fayre window..there. 1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) IV. 413 Thus monopoly will beat down prices. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xvii. 280 One whole side of the castle had been beaten down. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 107 For the purpose of keeping the sea from beating down. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. xi. 273 The fields that were so sadly beaten down a little while ago are now standing in fine yellow shocks. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 113 The sun..beat down upon us with intense force. extracted from beatv.¹ to beat down a. transitive. To force or impel (a thing) by striking, hammering, etc. With the direction expressed, as to beat down, to beat out of, or to beat into (a position or thing). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. vii. 110 He gaue me a Iewell th' other day, and now hee has beate it out of my hat. View more context for this quotation 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God xvi. 100 When we beat the dust out of a suite. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 52 The Blow..beat the Breath as it were quite out of my Body. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §238 The stone..was then lowered..and beat down with a heavy wooden maul. extracted from beatv.¹ < as lemmas
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