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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is simply a rope, thirty feet long, made of tightly twisted leather, with a slip knot at the end, which passes through an iron ring.
-- Wilson seized the lead-line, sprang to the fore-chains, and threw the lead; the rope ran out between his fingers, at the third knot the lead stopped.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From that very side entrance to the Vauxhall, near which the prince and all the Epanchin party were seated, there suddenly appeared quite a large knot of persons, at least a dozen.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, then, did these two devise a knot of war and battle, that none could unloose or break, and set both sides tugging at it, to the fail-ing of men's knees beneath them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The knot of Beast Men, still wondering, stood back among the trees.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the further extremity of a narrow, deep cavern in the rock, whose length appeared much extended by the per-spective and the nature of the light by which it was seen, was seated the scout, holding a blazing knot of pine.
-- That while he tendered to Alice the gourd of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperidge, with sufficient courtesy, in performing the same offices to her sister, his dark eye lingered on her rich, speaking countenance.
-- A knot of warriors soon entered the place again, and re-issuing, they bore the senseless remains into the adjacent woods.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now fas-tened all the hooks, and, taking the knot in my hand, began to pull; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enter-prise remained.
-- The first seemed to be an as-sembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, was unable to produce his law for tying such a knot as that.
-- Philosophical philanthropy teaches 'The rest of the little knot about the stove murmured an objection to the introduction of that threatening expression.
-- And more than once some voice, from among a knot of brawling or prowling figures in their path, had called out to the rest to 'let the woman and the child go by!'
-- Mr Sparkler had, undeniably, a weak appearance; with his eye in the window like a knot in the glass, and no reason on earth for stopping his bark suddenly, except the real reason.
-- Not a whit less reticent and wooden was Mr Flintwinch outwardly, than in the usual course of things: the only perceptible difference in him being that the knot of cravat which was generally under his ear, had worked round to the back of his head: where it formed an ornamental appendage not unlike a bagwig, and gave him something of a courtly appearance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A knot of heads gathered about her, and Amy strained her ears to hear what was going on, for broken sentences filled her with curiosity, and frequent peals of laughter made her wild to share the fun.
-- Her hair she had the sense to let alone, after gathering up the thick waves and curls into a Hebe-like knot at the back of her head.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig.
-- "No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
-- There, hammer that knot down, and we've done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
-- As he spoke, he drew forth an old cotton handkerchief from his breast; and untying a large knot in one corner, produced a small brown-paper packet.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With your strong beak, break the knot which holds him tied, take him down, and lay him softly on the grass at the foot of the oak."
-- But I found I was wrong, for as soon as I loosened the knot around his neck, he gave a long sigh and mumbled with a faint voice, 'Now I feel better!'"
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