knock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 敲， 敲打， 碰撞n. 敲， 击，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer came down, just in time to see the cat knock down a plate that covered a bowl of milk, and begin to lap in all haste.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A discreet knock sounded at the door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the only thing to be done being to knock at the door, I knocked, and was told from within to enter.
-- "Hold that noise," said Mr. Trabb, with the greatest sternness, "or I'll knock your head off!--Do me the favor to be seated, sir.
-- --At the back, there's a pig, and there are fowls and rabbits; then, I knock together my own little frame, you see, and grow cucumbers; and you'll judge at supper what sort of a salad I can raise.
-- That the place could possibly be, without her, was something my mind seemed unable to compass; and whereas she had seldom or never been in my thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming towards me in the street, or that she would presently knock at the door.
-- All the children of the village, and most of the women, were admiring these sable warders and the closed windows of the house and forge; and as I came up, one of the two warders (the postboy) knocked at the door,--implying that I was far too much exhausted by grief to have strength remaining to knock for myself.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the dog, 'my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my live-lihood?'
-- The next day, just as the princess had sat down to din-ner, she heard a strange noise tap, tap plash, plash as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said: 'Open the door, my princess dear, Open the door to thy true love here!
-- The bear said: 'Here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little'; so they brought the broom and swept the bear's hide clean; and he stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
-- Here the visitor, all unconscious of Mrs. Sparsit's magnanimous words, repeated his knock so loudly that the light porter hastened down to open the door; while Mrs. Sparsit took the precaution of concealing her little table, with all its appliances upon it, in a cupboard, and then decamped up-stairs, that she might appear, if needful, with the greater dignity.
-- What warning did I give that fellow, the first time he set foot in the house, when the express object of his visit was to know how he could knock Religion over, and floor the Established Church?
-- Couldn't you knock her cap off, or her tooth out, or scratch her, or do something or other to her?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, whose lofty stature had not been taken into consideration when the house was built, contrived to knock his head against the beams of the roof.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made a pretence of having mislaid his walking-stick, to give her time to set the bedstead right, to answer her sister's impatient knock at the wall, and to say a word softly to her uncle.
-- That to trim the ship, lighten the ship, clean the ship, would be to knock them off; that they could but be knocked off once; and that if the ship went down with them yet sticking to it, that was the ship's look out, and not theirs.
-- When his knock at the bright brass knocker of obsolete shape brought a woman-servant to the door, those faded scents in truth saluted him like wintry breath that had a faint remembrance in it of the bygone spring.
-- Consequently, we will only knock twice, and not very loud; and if we cannot wake them so, we must walk about till day.'
-- She had not yet finished preparing Mrs Clennam's tea, when the soft knock came to the door which always announced Little Dorrit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another knock and the appearance of two young ladies sent me back to my work, and there I virtuously remained through all the noise and gabbling that went on next door.
-- Then she drew her hand over her eyes, for one of her boyish habits was never to know where her hand-kerchief was, and had just managed to call up a smile when there came a knock at the porch door.
-- cried Mr. Bhaer, with a defiant nod, as if the walls of mist closing round them were barriers which he was to surmount or val-iantly knock down.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For who could tell but what the next morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down!
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