beat up• He would come home drunk, get into a fight with Mom, and beat her up.• Carl got beaten upoutside a nightclub on Saturday night.
beat up on somebody• They just love beating up onarchitects.• Everybody beat up on him because he made the team.• She's never going to get anywhere if she tries to beat up on males, especially a catch like me.• I used to beat up on my brothers when we were kids.• There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.
ˈbeat-upadjectiveadj
OLD/NOT NEWa beat-up car, bicycle etc is old and in bad condition 〔汽车、自行车等〕破旧的,破烂的SYN battered
a)beat somebody ↔ upHIT to hurt someone badly by hitting them 痛打某人,毒打某人
Her boyfriend got drunk and beat her up.
她男朋友喝醉了,把她狠狠揍了一顿。
b)beat up on somebodyAmerican EnglishAmEHIT to hit someone and harm them, especially someone younger or weaker than yourself 欺负殴打某人〔尤指弱小的人〕
c)BLAME beat yourself up (also beat up on yourselfAmerican EnglishAmE) informal to blame yourself too much for something 太过自责
If you do your best and you lose, you can’t beat yourself up about it.
你要是尽了最大努力后还是失败,就不用太责怪自己了。
Examples from the Corpus
beat up• He would come home drunk, get into a fight with Mom, and beat her up.• Carl got beaten upoutside a nightclub on Saturday night.
beat up on somebody• They just love beating up onarchitects.• Everybody beat up on him because he made the team.• She's never going to get anywhere if she tries to beat up on males, especially a catch like me.• I used to beat up on my brothers when we were kids.• There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.