Knuckle

(noun.) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed.

(verb.) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground.

(verb.) press or rub with the knuckles.

凯瑟琳整理

• He now presented his knuckle to the key, and received a strong spark. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Bread--knuckle o' ham, reg'lar picter--cold beef in slices, wery good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The young lady's lamentations were checked at this point by a knuckle, knocking at the half-open door of the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The fat boy gasped, looked at the bedroom door, gasped again, and wiped two tears away with the knuckle of each of his forefingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was in that highly-charged state that one might have expected to draw sparks and snaps from him by presenting a knuckle to any part of his figure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The knuckle had knocked two or three times already, but had not been heard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Thank you, Dobbin, he said, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, I was just--just telling her I would. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Howbeit, Twemlow doth at length invest himself with collar and cravat and wristbands to his knuckles, and goeth forth to breakfast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So he came down reluctantly, snow-burned, snow-estranged, to the house in the hollow, between the knuckles of the mountain tops. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I sat up in bed and rapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Mr. Micawber, with a perfect miracle of dexterity or luck, caught his advancing knuckles with the ruler, and disabled his right hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grasp him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Mr. Harthouse inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• So he knuckled down, again to use his own phrase, and sent old Hulker with peaceable overtures to Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Cruncher knuckled his forehead, as Sydney Carton and the spy returned from the dark room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Bitzer knuckled his forehead again, and again begged pardon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Bitzer picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off; and backing, and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was an accident. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Thank you, ma'am,' said Bitzer, knuckling his forehead again, in return for the favour of Mrs. Sparsit's improving conversation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The light porter placed the tea-tray on it, knuckling his forehead as a form of homage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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