heartbeat

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heart·beat /ˈhɑːtbiːt $ ˈhɑːrt-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

1. MBODYthe action or sound of your heart as it pumps blood through your body 心跳，心搏

2. be a heartbeat away from something to be very close to a situation or position 〔状态或位置〕非常接近某事物

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be a heartbeat away from something• The Red Sox are a heartbeat away from the American League championship.• The Red Sox are a heartbeat away from landing another blue-chip bullpen stopper.

3 in a heartbeat American EnglishAmE very quickly, without delay 一下子

Things can change in a heartbeat.

情况会瞬间发生变化。

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in a heartbeat• If he asked me to marry him, I'd accept in a heartbeat.• Beyond Des Jardins' cooking, there are two things that would bring me back to Jardiniere in a heartbeat.• Don't think for a minute owner Jerry Jones wouldn't trade places with Bob McNair in a heartbeat.• For exam-ple, an emergency or operating room is not the best environment for monitoring subtle variations in heartbeats.

4. the heartbeat of something American EnglishAmE the main origin of activity or excitement in a place or organization 某事物的中心[核心]

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the heartbeat of something• The timeless street has been the heartbeat of popular music, and source of countless classics.• Broadway has long been the heartbeat of popular music and the source of countless classics.• Trondur had compared the movement to the heartbeat of a great animal.

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heartbeat• In addition to being the seat of consciousness and awareness, the brain controls heartbeat, breathing, and other life-support systems.• It opens rather clinically, with a sound-and-vision sequence featuring heartbeats, hospital interiors and instruments and a how-its-done Idiot's Guide.• She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats.• Put simply, cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat.• A baby's heartbeat is nearly twice as fast as an adult's.• Within a week, the fetus's heartbeat had returned to normal.

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