knuckle

英 ['n?k(?)l] 美['n?kl]

CET6+TEM4低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?knuckles;

1. knock => knuckle.
2. 我們敲門的時候不正是使用的是指關節去敲門的嗎？

knuckle 指節

來自Proto-Germanic*knuk,骨頭，-le,小詞后綴。引申詞義指節，銅指手套（一種過去的武器）。

knuckle: knuckle: [14] Knuckle originally denoted the rounded end of a bone at a joint, which sticks out when you bend the joint. This could be at any joint, including the elbow, the knee and even the joints of the vertebrae; only gradually did it become specialized to the finger joints. The word probably came from Middle Low German kn?kel (or a relative of it), which appears to have meant etymologically ‘little bone’. Knuckle down, in the sense ‘begin to work hard and conscientiously’, comes from the game of marbles, where players have to put their knuckles on the ground when shooting a marble with the thumb.
knuckle (n.): mid-14c., knokel "finger joint; any joint of the body, especially a knobby one; morbid lump or swelling;" common Germanic (cognates: Middle Low German kn?kel, Middle Dutch cnockel, German kn?chel), literally "little bone," a diminutive of Proto-Germanic root *knuk- "bone" (compare German Knochen "bone).

As a verb from 1740, originally in the game of marbles. To knuckle down "apply oneself earnestly" is 1864 in American English, extended from marbles (putting a knuckle on the ground in assuming the hand position preliminary to shooting); to knuckle under "submit, give in" is first recorded 1740, supposedly from the former more general sense of "knuckle" and here meaning "knee," hence "to kneel." The face-busting knuckle-duster is from 1858 (a duster was a type of protective coat worn by workmen).

1. The United States, he said, did not knuckle under to demands.: 他說，美國不會屈從于他人的要求。

2. David Seaman was back in the Arsenal goal after breaking a knuckle.: 戴維·西曼在一個指關節骨折后又回到阿森納隊的球門前。

4. The only thing to do was knuckle down and get on with some serious hard work.: 唯一能做的就是開始努力工作，好好干出點兒成績來。

5. He managed to knuckle down to his lessons long enough to pass his examination.: 他在離考試還有足夠長時間的時候就開始認真學習，從而通過了考試。