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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So they wrestled swiftly, rapturously, intent and mindless at last, two essential white figures working into a tighter closer oneness of struggle, with a strange, octopus-like knotting and flashing of limbs in the subdued light of the room; a tense white knot of flesh gripped in silence between the walls of old brown books.
-- Often, in the white interlaced knot of violent living being that swayed silently, there was no head to be seen, only the swift, tight limbs, the solid white backs, the physical junction of two bodies clinched into oneness.
-- Day by day the tissue of the sick man was further and further reduced, nearer and nearer the process came, towards the last knot which held the human being in its unity.
-- But this knot was hard and unrelaxed, the will of the dying man never gave way.
-- The terrible knot of consciousness that had persisted there like an obsession was broken, gone, his life was dissolved in darkness over his limbs and his body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went a little apart from the knot of people who had congregated about the coach, and fell upon each other's neck, and sobbed, and wept with joy.
-- In some of these flourishes it went close to Miss Sally's head; the ragged edges of the head-dress fluttered with the wind it raised; advance it but an inch, and that great brown knot was on the ground: yet still the unconscious maiden worked away, and never raised her eyes.
-- Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water.
-- By little and little the water fell away, so that in ten year after that, a second knot was made, and you must unwind so much rope, or the bucket swung tight and empty at the end.
-- In ten years' time, the water fell again, and a third knot was made.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wore a tight-fitting black silk dress, with a knot of red ribbon, and her hair was done up according to the latest fashion.
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：
-- The little knot on Indians drew back in a body, and suffered, as they thought, the conjurer and his inspired assistant to proceed.
-- By the Lord, a squaw might put a bullet into the center of such a knot of dark skins!'
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