喜樂美語

核心畫面

A knee is the joint in the middle of your leg, the place where the leg bends. From this one body part the word reaches out two ways: to things near it (the cloth over it, the lap above it) and to what bending the knee means — in fear, begging, surrender and respect — plus the action of striking with it.

可以想成：腿中間那個會彎的關節——膝蓋。整個字從這一個身體部位往兩邊伸：一邊伸到它附近的東西（蓋住它的褲管、它上方的…更多收起可以想成：腿中間那個會彎的關節——膝蓋。整個字從這一個身體部位往兩邊伸：一邊伸到它附近的東西（蓋住它的褲管、它上方的大腿），另一邊伸到「彎下膝蓋」這個動作所代表的意思——嚇得發抖、下跪懇求、屈服、恭敬——再加上用膝蓋去撞的動作。

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

kneenoun/niː/

  • 1

    anatomymedicinesciencesIn humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

    • Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
    • He made him ſtoup perforce vnto his knee, / And doe vnwilling worſhip to the Saint, / That on his ſhield depainted he did ſee[…]
  • 2

    In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.

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    In birds:

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    In birds:

  • 5

    The part of a garment that covers the knee.

  • 6

    businessmanufacturingshipbuildingA piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

    • Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them.
  • 7

    archaicAn act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.

    • Give them title, knee, and approbation.
    • […] and he made a knee to the Caesar of Patna, giving that man all honour due to him.
  • 8

    Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.

    • the knee of a graph
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.

    • Tante was groggy but not quite out so Winnie gave him a knee to the jaw that Rose had shown her, and that was enough. He slumped like a rag-doll to the floor.
  • 10

    The presence of a parent etc., where a young child acquires early knowledge.

    • The duty is, or should be, a thing taught at one's father's knee, and the structure of the family gently enforces it.
    • This has significant implications for sacramental theology which it seems Pusey even realised in the way he spoke of his early life and of learning all he knew about the Eucharist and the Catholic faith at his mother's knee, […]

kneeverb/niː/

  • 1

    archaicTo kneel to.

    • I could as well be brought / To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot
  • 2

    To poke or strike with the knee.

    • When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.
  • 3

    To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

    • Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。