knot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绳结; 结合; 树节; 海里; 小群人; v. 打结，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe.
-- But even if not, even if I knew certainly not, show me the neck of an aristocrat and tyrant, and still I would ' Then madame, with her teeth set, tied a very terrible knot indeed.
-- And as Madame Defarge moved on from group to group, all three went quicker and fiercer among every little knot of women that she had spoken with, and left behind.
-- It was almost morning, when Defarge's wine-shop part-ed with its last knot of customers, and Monsieur Defarge said to madame his wife, in husky tones, while fastening the door: 'At last it is come, my dear!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he heard shouts from a knot of men--he knew they were his friends in the regiment--who were standing at the obstacle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not fail to observe the curious equipages carriages and palanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo; nor the women whom he thought not especially handsome who took little steps with their little feet, whereon they wore canvas shoes, straw sandals, and clogs of worked wood, and who displayed tight-looking eyes, flat chests, teeth fashionably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs, tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The professor of anatomy, Dr. Oliver O. Stout, was himself an anatomy, a dissection-chart, a thinly covered knot of nerves and blood vessels and bones.
-- "Let's edge in and find out," said Clif, and they clung to the fast increasing knot about Dean Silva and the mystery, who was introduced as Dr. Benoni Carr, the pharmacologist.
-- As head of the medical department of bacteriology, Gottlieb was a member of this all-ruling body, and when he entered the long Council Chamber, with its gilt ceiling, its heavy maroon curtains, its somber paintings of pioneers, he started for his usual seat, unconscious of the knot of whispering members, meditating on far-off absorbing things.
-- No rocking-chair clique on a summer-hotel porch, no knot of actors, ever whispered more scandal or hinted more warmly of complete idiocy in their confreres than did these uplifted scientists.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My stars!Butgive me leave to ask you, Mr. What's-your-name'; and here Mr.Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and madesuch a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visiblebelow them; 'whether, when you talk about favourites, youshowed proper respect to me?
-- Ifound myself one of these, frantically imploring a knot of sailorswhom I knew, not to let those two lost creatures perish before oureyes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
-- From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the still air.
-- I wish it had been the knot of knots, which there's no untying!"
-- At her third ascent the rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica every knot in every straw was visible.
-- As the day drew on, the flocks began to change hands, lightening the shepherd's responsibilities; and they turned their attention to this tent and inquired of a man at work there, whose soul seemed concentrated on tying a bothering knot in no time, what was going on.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She untied the knot and a handful of gold coins rolled out on the bed.
-- She raised her skirts and tried to pick her way among them toward a knot of men who were directing thestretcher bearers.
-- Please talk to me," she whispered and Scarlett would gabble something until Melanie again grippedthe knot and again began writhing.
-- "Untie the knot and take the bucket to the wagon and give them some.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a knot of three men and two women standing at a corner, and one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted her by saying, as she pulled her own shawl over her shoulders, "Jaggers is for him, 'Melia, and what more could you have?"
-- His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded.
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