核心畫面
a place where something long and thin — string, rope, hair — has been pulled tight and twisted around itself, so it bunches up into a hard little lump that grips and won't easily pull apart.
可以想成把一段繩子繞圈、拉緊，繞出來的那個又緊又硬的小疙瘩：它咬住自己、不容易再鬆開。knot 各種意思幾乎都圍著這…更多收起
可以想成把一段繩子繞圈、拉緊，繞出來的那個又緊又硬的小疙瘩：它咬住自己、不容易再鬆開。knot 各種意思幾乎都圍著這個「緊緊纏成一團、扣住不放」的畫面打轉——有的是人故意打的，有的是自己纏出來的，有的只是長得像那一團。原始詞典資料28 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。
knotnoun詞源 1/nɒt/
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A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- Climbers must make sure that all knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
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A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair.
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A maze-like pattern.
- Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art / In beds and curious knots, but nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
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mathematicssciencesA non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A knot can be defined as a non-self-intersecting broken line whose endpoints coincide: when such a knot is constrained to lie in a plane, then it is simply a polygon.
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A difficult situation.
- I got into a knot when I inadvertently insulted a policeman.
- A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs.
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The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
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Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- Jeremy had a knot on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
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A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
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A protuberant joint in a plant.
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Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- [T]he Queen who sat / With lips severely placid, felt the knot / Climb in her throat, […]
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The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
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The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- the knot of the tale
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
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A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
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A group of people or things.
- his ancient knot of dangerous adversarie
- As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief.
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A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- [I come] to crave a league of amity, And lastly, to confirm that amity With nuptial knot […]
- [I]t were very fit, […] to observe carefully this previous betrothing of ourselves, ere we knit the knot that can never be loosed.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.
- Here in Franklin Bay during our first season we hurtle along at 20 knots, dodging ice floes littering the surface.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.
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nauticaltransportA nautical mile.
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slangThe bulbus glandis.
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A group of snakes, intertwined.
- Male snakes are expected to return from hunting in September, at which point it’s expected the massive knot of snakes will hibernate and the feed will go dormant until spring.
- I have only once come across the spectacular sight of a tightly packed knot of adders sleeping together when my dogs disturbed earth under rocks on a south-facing hillside in Glen Lyon.
knotverb詞源 1/nɒt/
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To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- We knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- For many weeks about my loins I wore / The rope that haled the buckets from the well, / Twisted as tight as I could knot the noose, / And spake not of it to a single soul, / And spake not of it to a single soul, / Until the ulcer, eating through my skin, / Betray'd my secret penance, so that all / My brethren marvell'd greatly.
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To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration while attempting to unravel the tangled strands.
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To unite closely; to knit together.
- The party of the papists in England are become more knotted, both in dependence towards Spain, and amongst themselves.
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obsoleterareTo entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
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To form knots.
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To knit knots for a fringe.
knotnoun詞源 2/nɒt/
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One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
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。