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. -- （绳等的）结

  • to tie a knot 打个结

• 1 a tight mass, for example of hair or string -- 绞成一团的头发（或绳）

  • Alice's hair is always full of knots and tangles. 艾丽斯的头发总是缠结在一起，乱作一团。

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

  • Knots of anxious people stood waiting in the hall. 一群群人焦虑不安地站在大厅里等候。

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

• 4 a measure of the speed of ships, aircraft, or movements of water and air. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. -- 节（飞机或轮船的航速以及流速单位；1节约等于1海里／小时）

  • a top speed of about 20 knots 最高约为20节的航速

• 5 to tie in or with a knot -- 打个结

  • He caught the rope and knotted it around a post. 他抓住绳子，把它系在一根杆子上。

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

  • His muscles knotted (= swelled) with the strain. 他很使劲，连肌肉都鼓了起来。