A method for generating a measurement result, and a device are provided, and the method includes: receiving, by a terminal on a receive beam for each cell, a reference signal sent on a transmit beam of a corresponding cell, and measuring the received reference signal to obtain at least one group of measurement samples for each cell; processing the at least one group of measurement samples for each cell to obtain at least one initial processing value; processing the at least one initial processing value to obtain at least one target processing value; and reporting, by the terminal, a target processing value that meets a preset reporting rule in the at least one target processing value to a base station as a measurement result, or using, by the terminal itself, the target processing value to evaluate cell quality.