knot

复数：knots过去式：knotted过去分词：knotted现在分词：knotting第三人称单数：knots

1. [C]结 a fastening formed by tying together the ends of a piece or pieces of string, rope, wire, etc.
2. [C]一小群人 a small group of people close together
3. [C]硬节,节瘤 a hard mass in wood where a branch has come off a tree
4. [C]节,海里/小时 a measure of the speed of a ship, about 1853 meters per hour

1. vt. & vi. (使)打结,缠结 make a knot or join together with a knot

• do 35 knots时速可达35海里
• loosen a knot把结解开
• make a knot打结

• loose knot易解开的结
• the Gordian knot难办的事,复杂的问题

• bowline knot单套结
• reef knot平结

• in a knot(扎)成一个结

• knots in the mind思想上的疙瘩

• knot the laces把鞋带系紧
• knot one's tie打领结

• knot easily容易打结
• knot firmly〔tightly〕系紧
• knot loosely系得松
• knot up把…结在一起

• knot a rope round one's waist把一根绳子系在某人的腰上
• knot one's hair with a ribbon用丝带扎头发

tie the knot[法]结婚

chinese knot中国结

gordian knot难题；戈尔迪之结（希腊神话中的一个难题）

love knot n. 情结；园心结；相思

root knot根瘤病；根癌

cut the gordian knot快刀斩乱麻

1. This knot keeps loosening.
   这个结老松开。
2. My dead fingers could not untie the knot.
   我的手指麻木了，解不开结。
3. The knot was fastened in such a way that it was impossible to undo.
   这个结系得那么紧,根本解不开。
4. It was just a big knot up on the branch.
   那只是树枝上的一个节瘤。

1. This wire is too stiff to knot easily.
   这线太硬不容易打结。

1. Loop that end of the rope through this and knot it.
   把绳子的这一头儿从这里穿过然后打结。
2. He knotted a towel about his neck.
   他把毛巾系在脖子上。