knot是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a join made by tying together the ends of a piece or pieces of string, rope, cloth, etc. -- （繩等的）結

  • to tie a knot 打個結

• 1 a tight mass, for example of hair or string -- 絞成一團的頭髮（或繩）

  • Alice's hair is always full of knots and tangles. 愛麗斯的頭髮總是纏結在一起，亂作一團。

• 2 a small group of people standing close together -- 一小群人

  • Knots of anxious people stood waiting in the hall. 一群群人焦慮不安地站在大廳裡等候。

• 3 a small hard area on a tree or piece of wood where a branch was joined to the tree -- 樹瘤；節；（木板上的）節疤

• 4 a measure of the speed of ships, aircraft, or movements of water and air. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. -- 節（飛機或輪船的航速以及流速單位；1節約等於1浬／小時）

  • a top speed of about 20 knots 最高約為20節的航速

• 5 to tie in or with a knot -- 打個結

  • He caught the rope and knotted it around a post. 他抓住繩子，把它繫在一根杆子上。

• 6 to form a tight, hard, rounded mass -- 形成硬結

  • His muscles knotted (= swelled) with the strain. 他很使勁，連肌肉都鼓起來了。