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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment there was a furious ring at the bell, and a great knock at the door exactly similar to the one which had startled the company at Gania's house in the after-noon.
-- 'Well, prince, that's enough to knock me down!It as-tounds me!Here you are, as simple and innocent as a knight of the golden age, and yet ... yet ... you read a man's soul like a psychologist!Now, do explain it to me, prince, because I ...
-- They are only afraid that he may knock some-thing down, or trip over something when he comes into the room.
-- All he did, however, was to ask Vera very earnestly to knock at his door and awake him in time for the first train to Petersburg next morning.
-- The advice of all these agitated ladies was that the prince should go at once and knock at Rogojin's until he was let in: and when let in insist upon a substantial explanation of everything.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had no hand in shipping that ivory arm there; that thing is against all rule" pointing at it with the marlingspike "that is the captain's work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; he had that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some one's brains out with, I suppose, as he tried mine once.
-- Hast thou ever helped carry a bier, and heard the coffin knock against the churchyard gate, going in?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
-- On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs; but this was carrying out his virtuous precepts to an unusual extent.
-- If he is not--' Here the irascible old gentleman gave a great knock on the ground with his stick; which was always understood, by his friends, to imply the customary offer, whenever it was not expressed in words.
-- Look sharp with the light, or I shall knock my brains out against something in this confounded hole.'
-- 'It seems a strange sort of a thing, a knock coming at such a time in the morning,' said Mr. Giles, surveying the pale faces which surrounded him, and looking very blank himself; 'but the door must be opened.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought now was a good time to knock him in the head, and called to Friday to stand still and we should shoot the bear: but he cried out earnestly, 'Oh, pray!Oh, pray!no shoot, me shoot by and then:' he would have said by-and-by.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then a knock came at their door and the maidservant handed a letter in.
-- Knock 'em."
-- "Don't go and try to knock around now without any money.
-- He came over, and was about to begin a conversation with her, when a knock came at their door.
-- Hurstwood opened the door, half-thinking that the knock was Carrie's.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth wa-ter; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again.
-- If we was to put in another night this way we'd have to knock off for a week to let our hands get well couldn't touch a case-knife with them sooner.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words, he grabbed the log with both hands and started to knock it about unmercifully.
-- In that very instant, a loud knock sounded on the door.
-- Pinocchio went straight to the Fairy's house, firmly resolved to knock at the door.
-- He began to cry, to scream, to knock his head against the wall, but the more he shrieked, the longer and the more hairy grew his ears.
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