knock
n
1 (sound of a) sharp blow 短促的敲或打(的聲音)
Did I hear a knock at the door? 是有人敲門嗎?
If you're not up by eight o'clock I'll give you a knock, ie wake you by knocking at your door. 要是八點鐘你還不起床, 我就來敲你的門.
She fell off her bike and got a nasty knock. 她從自行車上摔下來, 摔得很重.
In football you have to get used to hard knocks. 踢足球就得經得起碰撞.
2 (in an engine) sound of knocking (knock2 2) (發動機的)爆震聲
What's that knock I can hear? 我聽到發動機有爆震聲是怎麼回事啊?
3 (infml 口) (in cricket) innings (板球的)一局
That was a good knock: 86 not out. 那局真漂亮, 打了86分還未出局.
4 (idm 習語) take a `knock (infml 口) suffer a financial or an emotional blow 蒙受經濟或感情上的打擊
She took a bad knock when her husband died. 她丈夫一死她受到沉重的打擊.
knock v
1 [Tn, Tn.pr]
strike (sth) with a sharp blow 敲, 打(某物)
Mind you don't knock your head (on this low beam). 小心, 別(讓這根低梁)撞著頭.
2 [I, Ipr] make a noise by striking sth 敲擊某物出聲
knock three times (at the door, on the window, etc) 敲三下(門、 窗等). =>Usage at bang1 用法見bang1.
3
(a) [Cn.a, Cn.g]
cause (sb/sth) to be in a certain state or position by striking (him/it) 將(某人[某物])擊成某狀態
The fall knocked me senseless. 那一跤 得我失去了知覺.
He knocked me flat with one punch. 他一拳把我擊倒了.
He knocked my drink flying. 他打翻了我的飲料.
(b) [Tn.pr] make (sth) by striking 敲擊成某物
knock a hole in the wall 在墻上鑿個洞.
4 [I] (of a faulty petrol engine) make a tapping or thumping noise (指有故障的汽油發動機)發出爆震聲.
5 [Tn] (infml 口) say critical or insulting things about (sb/sth) 批評, 數落, 非難(某人[某事物])
The newspapers are too fond of knocking the England team. 報紙專門愛挖苦英格蘭隊.
He's always knocking the way I do things. 他總是挑剔我做得不對.
6 (idm 習語) beat/knock the daylights out of sb => daylights. beat/knock hell out of sb/sth => hell. get/knock sb/sth into shape => shape1. hit/knock sb for six => hit1. knock sb's `block/`head off (sl 俚) (used esp when threatening sb 尤用於威脅某人) strike sb in anger 狠打某人
Call me that again and I'll knock your block off! 你再那麼叫我, 我就揍你! knock the bottom out of sth cause sth to collapse 使某事物垮臺
It knocked the bottom out of the coffee market, ie caused the price of coffee to fall sharply. 這一來咖啡的市場價格暴跌.
She knocked the bottom out of our argument. 她把我們的論點駁得體無完膚. knock your/their `heads together (infml 口) force people to stop quarrelling and behave sensibly 強力使人不再爭吵而恢復理智
I often feel that politicians should have their heads knocked together, like naughty children 我時常覺得應該像教訓淘氣孩子那樣讓政治家停止爭吵. knock sb/sth into a cocked `hat defeat or outclass sb/sth 挫敗或超過某人[某事物]
A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat. 遇上真正行家我的工作就相形見絀了. knock it `off (sl 俚) (esp imperative 尤用於祈使句) stop a noise, an argument, etc 別吵了、 別爭了
Knock it off, kids, I'm trying to sleep! 孩子們, 別鬧了, 我要睡覺了! knock sb off his `pedestal/perch (infml 口) defeat sb; show that sb is no longer best at sth 擊敗某人; 顯示某人不再首屈一指. knock sb `sideways (infml 口) defeat sb; astonish sb 擊敗某人; 使某人驚訝. knock `spots off sb/sth (infml 口) be much better than sb/sth 遠勝於某人[某事物]
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敲打你“腦殼”(諧音)
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*[n?k]n. 敲, 敲打, 敲門vt. 敲擊, 互撞, 攻擊vi. 敲擊, 互撞, 攻擊【醫】 叩音相關詞組: get the knock knock about knock sb about knock sth back knock sth down knock sb down for knock it off knock into sb knock sth off knock on knock sb off knock sb off his feet knock out knock oneself out knock sb up knock sb out knock sth up knock sth over knock over knock together knock up against take the knock knock sb flat
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fantasyn. 幻想;空想的產物;幻想作品;非正式的貨幣;
vt.& vi. 想像;幻想;奏幻想曲;