vi. 敲；打；敲击
vt. 敲；打；敲击；批评
n. 敲；敲打；爆震声
英 [nɒk]美 [nɑk]
权威例句
- Find Bernie and get him to knock an agreement together.
找到伯尼，让他尽快拟好一份协议。
来自柯林斯例句 - They decided to knock the two rooms into one.
他们决定把两间屋子打通连成一间。
来自柯林斯例句 - What they said was a real knock to my self-confidence.
他们的话是对我自信心的一次重大打击。
来自柯林斯例句 - He had many motives for wanting to knock off Yvonne.
他有很多杀伊冯娜的动机。
来自柯林斯例句 - When we stop enjoying ourselves we'll knock it on the head.
等玩够了，我们就会结束。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
knock 敲，击
拟声词，敲打东西的声音。比较click,clock.
英语词源
knock: [OE] knock is a classic onomatopoeic word: that is to say, it originated in a direct imitation of the sound it denotes. The similar Swedish knacka ‘knock’ may be related. The figurative use of the word for ‘criticize’ originated in late 19th-century America.
Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"
At the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off. [U.S. Senate record, 1834]
mid-14c., from knock (v.). As an engine noise, from 1899.
