knee是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 膝， 膝盖，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sherlock Holmes struck his hand against his knee with an impatient gesture.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe I wore one; but now I usually hold my napkin on my knee when I eat.'
-- 'Imagine, my dear,' cried the general, 'it turns out that I have nursed the prince on my knee in the old days.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the best men at the ships were being cho-sen to go on an ambush and there is nothing like this for showing what a man is made of; it comes out then who is cowardly and who brave; the coward will change colour at every touch and turn; he is full of fears, and keeps shifting his weight first on one knee and then on the other; his heart beats fast as he thinks of death, and one can hear the chat-tering of his teeth; whereas the brave man will not change colour nor be frightened on finding himself in ambush, but is all the time longing to go into action if the best men were being chosen for such a service, no one could make light of your courage nor feats of arms.
-- There he let him lie and stayed Demouchus son of Philetor, a man both brave and of great stature, by hitting him on the knee with a spear; then he smote him with his sword and killed him.
-- Then Ulysses in turn lifted Ajax and stirred him a little from the ground but could not lift him right off it, his knee sank under him, and the two fell side by side on the ground and were all begrimed with dust.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went to the corner, startled, and saw Mont-gomery, his face scarlet, his hair disordered, and the knee of his trousers torn.
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 naked body of his antagonist afforded Heyward no means of holding his adversary, who glided from his grasp, and rose again with one knee on his chest, pressing him down with the weight of a giant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your foot is like marble, my child;' he had happened to touch it, while stooping on one knee at his work of kindling the fire; 'put it nearer the warmth.'
-- returned Mr Pancks, with a wandering eye towards the figure of the little seamstress on her knee picking threads and fraying of her work from the carpet.
-- After this explosion Affery put her apron into her mouth again; always keeping her hand on the window-sill and her knee on the window-seat, ready to cry out or jump out if her lord and master approached.
-- At no Mother's knee but hers had he ever dwelt in his youth on hopeful promises, on playful fancies, on the harvests of tenderness and humility that lie hidden in the early-fostered seeds of the imagination; on the oaks of retreat from blighting winds, that have the germs of their strong roots in nursery acorns.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie went by in the afternoon, and seeing Meg at the window, seemed suddenly possessed with a melodramatic fit, for he fell down on one knee in the snow, beat his breast, tore his hair, and clasped his hands imploringly, as if beg-ging some boon.
-- Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it cer-tainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most ab-ject submission.
-- The penitent kiss was better than a world of words, and John had her on his knee in a minute, saying tenderly... 'It was too bad to laugh at the poor little jelly pots.
-- 'Me loves Parpar,' said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys.
-- Don't despond, but hope and keep happy,' said Mrs. March, as tenderhearted Daisy stooped from her knee to lay her rosy cheek against her little cousin's pale one.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
-- Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up for another fling.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took the best aim I could with the first piece to have shot him in the head, but he lay so with his leg raised a little above his nose, that the slugs hit his leg about the knee and broke the bone.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat down in a rocking-chair to think the better, drawing up one leg on his knee and frowning mightily.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep, and watched the day- light come.
-- But he said it warn't no use, nothing but to be dead and done with it all could do him any good; though he said it often made him feel easier and better for a while if people treated him ac-cording to his rights, and got down on one knee to speak to him, and always called him 'Your Majesty,' and waited on him first at meals, and didn't set down in his presence till he asked them.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the first part of the performance was over, the Owner and Manager of the circus, in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented himself to the public and in a loud, pompous voice made the following announcement: "Most honored friends, Gentlemen and Ladies!
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