One way to hold this word: not one blow, but blow after blow after blow. The -ing takes the repeating and wraps it into a thing you can name. What changes across the word is only what is repeating and who feels it. Fists on a person, and the word is an event you can count: a beating. Goals going in one after another, and the losing side says it took a beating, without anyone being touched. A heart, wings, rain on a roof, and the on-and-on is all that is left: the beating of the drums.
From the word’s history
Built from the verb beat plus -ing, which turns the repeated action into something you can name.
由動詞 beat 加上 -ing 組成，把重複的動作變成一個可以指稱的東西。這也是為什麼三個用法都還留著「一下接一下」的味道。
Wiktionary entry for beating (packet etymology_text: By surface analysis, beat + -ing.)
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beatingnoun/ˈbiːtɪŋ/
- 1
The action by which someone or something is beaten.
- the beating of a drum
- secret beatings of prisoners
- 2
A heavy defeat or setback.
- To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.
- 3
The pulsation of the heart.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。