Knack
[næk]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
(v. i.) To speak affectedly.
(n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
(n.) A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
(n.) Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
凯西整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Toy, plaything, knick-knack, gimcrack, gewgaw, bawble, trifle, JIGGUMBOB.[2]. Dexterity, adroitness, dexterousness, skill, skilfulness, facility, aptness, aptitude, quickness, readiness, address, expertness.
沙琳編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a petty contrivance: a toy: a nice trick: dexterity adroitness.—n. Knack′iness.—adjs. Knack′ish Knack′y cunning crafty.
巴雷特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- They have the strangest knack of startling you with unpleasant surprises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She wondered at herself, as she had so often wondered, that, possessing the knack, she did not more consistently exercise it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- You have the knack of torturing those who love you, beyond the possibility of endurance! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But doors and listeners have a knack of getting together; and, in my line of life, we cultivate a healthy taste for the open air. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Some men have a knack of keeping appointments; and other men have a knack of missing them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Some fine, slight fingers have a wondrous knack at pulverizing a man's brittle pride. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When attacked sometimes, Becky had a knack of adopting a demure ingenue air, under which she was most dangerous. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He's too old to acquire the knack of it now--and too drunk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Whitney had been a good student, had an attractive personality, and had already shown a natural knack for mechanics. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The room altogether was full of knick-knacks, which must take a long time to dust; and time to people of limited income was money. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Of all the little knick-knacks in your dressing-case, there wasn't one that had so much as a speck on it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Edith was impatient to get well, in order to fill Margaret's bed-room with all the soft comforts, and pretty nick-knacks, with which her own abounded. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
狄伦編輯