She beat time with her fingers.

她用手指打拍子。

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The conductor beat time with a baton.

指挥用指挥棒打拍子。

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"Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied, "but I know I have to beat time when I learn music."

“也许不，”爱丽丝小心地回答，“但我在学音乐的时候，总是按着时间打拍子的。”

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Other times he would move both records at the same time producing a quick measured beat.

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There was a period of time in which, although there were decent, chess-playing programs couldn't beat the best chess-playing humans.

尽管曾一度出现过,强劲的象棋程序,无法战胜顶级人类棋手的情形

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And by this time Mark Antony had palled up with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Octavian beat both of them, and he became the sole ruler of the empire in 27 BCE.

安东尼与埃及女王克利奥帕特拉先后自杀，屋大维击败了他们两人，于公元前27年成为了帝国的独裁者。

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MacCready's Bionic Bat would go on to beat this time by getting around the course in two minutes, 43 seconds just over two months later, on July 18th.

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Kirwa, finishing among a group of half-marathon participants, beat his time of a year ago with an unofficial mark of 2:13:37, becoming the first back-to-back male winner since Abel Gisemba in 1993-94.

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This year, with the mayor unable to seek re-election, voters opted en masse for the man he beat last time: Mitch Landrieu, the city's first white mayor in over 30 years and the brother of Louisiana's senior senator.

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