heartbeat

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heart·beat /ˈhɑːtbiːt $ ˈhɑːrt-/ noun [countable, uncountable]  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3  in a heartbeat American English very quickly, without delay 一下子 Things can change in a heartbeat. 情况会瞬间发生变化。4. the heartbeat of something American English the main origin of activity or excitement in a place or organization 某事物的中心[核心]

Examples from the Corpus

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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heartbeat
heart‧beat /ˈhɑːtbiːt $ ˈhɑːrt-/ noun [uncountable and countable]
1. the action or sound of your heart as it pumps blood through your body
2. be a heartbeat away from something to be very close to a situation or position
3. in a heartbeat American English very quickly, without delay:
    Things can change in a heartbeat.
4. the heartbeat of something American English the main origin of activity or excitement in a place or organization

heart·beatBrE /ˈhɑːtbiːt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhɑːrtbiːt/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] the movement or sound of the heart as it sends blood around the body 心跳；心搏；心跳声◆a rapid/regular heartbeat 急速／正常的心跳 [singular] the ~ of sth (NAmE) an important feature of sth, that is responsible for making it what it is 重要特征；中心◆The candidate said that he understood the heartbeat of the Hispanic community in California. 这位候选人说他了解加利福尼亚州的拉美裔美国人社区的特点。🔊🔊●a ˈheartbeat away (from sth)very close to sth （离…）很近；近在咫尺●in a ˈheartbeatvery quickly, without thinking about it 瞬间；随即◆If I was offered another job, I'd leave in a heartbeat. 如果能找到另外一份工作，我马上就走。🔊🔊