beat to

短语

词形变化

beaten to beating to beats to 三单 beats to beating to 现在分词 beaten to 过去式 beaten to 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To arrive (somewhere) more quickly (than someone else); to succeed (at something) more quickly (than someone else).

    及物

    Zumbetel wanted to beat Yalpatel to launching the planet's first pocket-sized satellite phone.

    I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!

词源

Shortening of beat to the punch.

来源：wiktionary