beat 普通用词，含义广泛，指连续打击。游戏、竞赛或战争中作打败解。
strike 普通用词，多指急速或突然一次猛击。
hit 普通用词，常与strike换用，侧重有目标的猛击，强调用力击中。
thrash 侧重指用棍子或鞭子等痛打。
whip 多指用鞭子抽打。
参考例句
1. The police beat the door down in order to get into the building. 警察为了进大楼强行砸开了大楼的大门。
2. Beat the dog before the lion. 狮子面前打狗。②杀鸡吓猴。
3. We can beat him. 我们可以打败他。
英英解释
n.
1. a regular route for a sentry or policeman
2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
3. the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
4. a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a fr
5. a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
6. the sound of stroke or blow
7. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
8. a regular rate of repetition
9. a stroke or blow
10. the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is v.
1. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
2. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
3. hit repeatedly
4. move rhythmically
5. shape by beating
6. make a rhythmic sound
7. glare or strike with great intensity
8. move with a thrashing motion
9. sail with much tacking or with difficulty
10. stir vigorously
11. strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
12. be superior
13. avoid paying
14. make a sound like a clock or a timer
15. move with a flapping motion
16. indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
17. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
18. make by pounding or trampling
19. produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
20. strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
21. beat through cleverness and wit
22. be a mystery or bewildering to
23. wear out completely adj.
1. very tired
