beat、strike、hit、thrash与whip这些动词均含有“打”之意。
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。
- They saw him beating his dog with a stick.
他们看见他用棍子打他的狗。 - The child had been brutally/savagely beaten.
孩子遭到了毒打。 - She was beaten to death.
她被活活打死了。 - He was beaten senseless.
他被打昏了。 - Beat the drum.
打起鼓来。 - The rain was beating down incessantly on the tin roof.
雨点不断地打在锡皮屋顶上。 - Simon always beats me at tennis.
西蒙打网球总是赢我。 - Holland beat Belgium (by) 3–1.
荷兰队3比1战胜比利时队。 - She has beaten her own record of three minutes ten seconds.
她打破了自己创造的3分10秒的纪录。
strike : 普通用词，多指急速或突然一次猛击。
- Her car went out of control and struck an oncoming vehicle.
她的汽车失控，撞上了迎面开来的一辆车。 - The police have warned the public that the killer could strike again.
警方提醒公众，杀手可能会再次下手。 - The autopsy revealed that his murderer had struck him on the head with an iron bar.
尸体解剖显示，杀手用一根铁棍猛击了他的头部。 - Have you ever been struck by lightning?
你被闪电击中过吗？ - My golf was terrible today - I just didn't strike the ball well.
我今天高尔夫打得很糟糕——我就是击不好球。
hit : 普通用词，常与strike换用，侧重有目标的猛击，强调用力击中。
- Teachers are not allowed to hit their pupils.
不允许教师打学生。 - This type of glass won't shatter no matter how hard you hit it.
这种玻璃无论你怎么敲击都不会碎。 - She hit her thumb with the hammer.
她用锤子砸到自己的拇指。
thrash : 侧重指（作为惩罚）用棍子或鞭子等痛打。
- His father used to thrash him when he was a boy.
他小时候，父亲常常责打他。 - He thrashed the horse with his whip.
他用鞭子狠狠抽打这匹马。
whip : 多指用鞭子抽打。
- I don't like the way the drivers whip their horses.
我不喜欢马车夫那样鞭打马匹。 - Eyewitnesses claimed Mr Melton whipped the horse up to 16 times.
目击证人称梅尔顿先生抽打了这匹马16鞭之多。
