Knuckle
['nʌk(ə)l] or ['nʌkl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed.
(verb.) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground.
(verb.) press or rub with the knuckles.
凯瑟琳整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.
(n.) The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
(n.) The joint of a plant.
(n.) The joining pars of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.
(n.) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
(n.) A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster.
(v. i.) To yield; to submit; -- used with down, to, or under.
(v. t.) To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.
达雷尔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Yield (obsequiously), submit, cringe, stoop, crouch, give up, KNOCK UNDER.
辛迪校對
解釋/意思:
n. projecting joint of the fingers; (cook.) the knee-joint of a calf or pig.—v.i. to bend the fingers: to touch the forehead as a mark of respect: to yield.—v.t. (rare) to touch with the knuckle.—ns. Knuck′le-bones a game (called also Dibs); Knuck′le-bow the curved part of a sword-guard that covers the fingers; Knuck′le-dust′er a kind of modern cestus devised as a protection against garrotters; Knuck′le-joint a joint where the forked end of a connecting-rod is joined by a bolt to another piece of the machinery.—Knuckle down to apply one's self with vigour to a task: to submit—in this sense also Knuckle under.
手打:斯坦
例句/造句/用法:
- He now presented his knuckle to the key, and received a strong spark. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Bread--knuckle o' ham, reg'lar picter--cold beef in slices, wery good. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The young lady's lamentations were checked at this point by a knuckle, knocking at the half-open door of the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The fat boy gasped, looked at the bedroom door, gasped again, and wiped two tears away with the knuckle of each of his forefingers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He was in that highly-charged state that one might have expected to draw sparks and snaps from him by presenting a knuckle to any part of his figure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The knuckle had knocked two or three times already, but had not been heard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Thank you, Dobbin, he said, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, I was just--just telling her I would. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Howbeit, Twemlow doth at length invest himself with collar and cravat and wristbands to his knuckles, and goeth forth to breakfast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- So he came down reluctantly, snow-burned, snow-estranged, to the house in the hollow, between the knuckles of the mountain tops. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I sat up in bed and rapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Mr. Micawber, with a perfect miracle of dexterity or luck, caught his advancing knuckles with the ruler, and disabled his right hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grasp him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Mr. Harthouse inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- So he knuckled down, again to use his own phrase, and sent old Hulker with peaceable overtures to Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mr. Cruncher knuckled his forehead, as Sydney Carton and the spy returned from the dark room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Bitzer knuckled his forehead again, and again begged pardon. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Bitzer picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off; and backing, and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was an accident. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Thank you, ma'am,' said Bitzer, knuckling his forehead again, in return for the favour of Mrs. Sparsit's improving conversation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The light porter placed the tea-tray on it, knuckling his forehead as a form of homage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
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