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BNC: 1979 COCA: 1488

knee

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knee1 /niː/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countableC]  
1  HBHthe joint that bends in the middle of your leg 膝，膝盖，膝关节
 Lucy had a bandage round her knee.
露西的膝盖上缠着绷带。
on your knees
 She was on her knees (=kneeling), weeding the garden.
她在花园里跪着除杂草。
sink/fall/drop to your knees (=move so that you are kneeling) 跪下
 Tim fell to his knees and started to pray.
蒂姆跪下来开始祷告。
 a knee injury
膝伤
2  DCthe part of your clothes that covers your knee 〔裤子的〕膝部
 His jeans had holes in both knees.
他的牛仔裤两边膝盖处都有洞。
3  on somebody’s knee HBHon the top part of your legs when you are sitting down 〔坐〕在某人膝上
 Daddy, can I sit on your knee?
爸爸，我能坐你腿上吗？
Examples from the Corpus
on somebody’s knee• I used to sit on Grandpa's knee and ask him read to me.
4. knees knocking (together) FRIGHTENEDCOLDif your knees are knocking, you are feeling very afraid or very cold 〔因害怕或寒冷而〕双膝颤抖
Examples from the Corpus
knees knocking (together)• Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
5  on your knees REGRET/FEEL SORRYin a way that shows you have no power but want or need something very much 跪下，乞求
 He went on his knees begging for his job back.
他跪下来乞求恢复原来的工作。
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on your knees• McAllister should be on his knees after a gruelling month at Elland Road.• Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.• When I saw him a week later he got down on his knees and asked me to forgive him what he done.• Painfully she wallows down on her knees and without diffidence soaps and rinses me all over.• He gave no trouble and sat with his head down and his elbows on his knees, hands loose and empty.• You know the lasting image: Hendrix on his knees, summoning fire from a flaming Stratocaster guitar.• Pearl had sat straight in her chair; her hands overturned on her knees.• But now the Captain was on his knees beside the coffin praying.
6  bring somebody/something to their knees 
a) BEAT/DEFEATto defeat a country or group of people in a war 〔在战争中〕打败某人/某国
 The bombing was supposed to bring the country to its knees.
轰炸的本来目的是让这个国家屈膝投降。
b) HARM/BE BAD FORto have such a bad effect on an organization, activity etc that it cannot continue 使〔组织、活动等〕难以继续 SYN cripple
 The recession has brought many companies to their knees.
经济衰退使许多公司难以维持。
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bring somebody/something to their knees• The recession has brought many companies to their knees.• He yelled for union solidarity to support the strike and to bring management to their knees, but to no avail.
7. put/take somebody over your knee old-fashionedPUNISH to punish a child by hitting them 打孩子〔以示惩罚〕
8. on bended knee(s) old-fashionedADMIRE in a way that shows great respect for someone 跪着〔表示对某人极大的敬意〕
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on bended knee(s)• And they vote and they vote and the politicians come on bended knees.• Oh ... I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee.• We need not crawl on bended knees.• No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on bended knee to get it.• I bet you beg for it on bended knees!• Perhaps it was all of that singing on bended knees or from seated positions.
→ learn/be taught something at your mother’s knee at mother1(4), → the bee’s knees at bee(5), → weak at the knees at weak(13)
Examples from the Corpus
knee• We need not crawl on bended knees.• Billy's jeans had holes in both knees.• Desmond Fairchild, paddling through the spotlights, his trousers rolled up to his hairy knees, shouted something at her.• It feathered her skin with goosebumps, doubled her pulse-rate, melted her knees.• She could, according to Marian, balance on her hands with her knees drawn up close to her chest.• And bringing an already faltering economy to its knees, transport workers brought the country to a virtual standstill in December.• Was it because I too went down on to my knees into the dirt to find a lost one?• Carrington did not suit up because of his sore knee.• Diaz's leg had to be amputated at the knee.• Surrounded by breathing, close enough to neighbours to touch knees.• The only thing I remember from my ski lessons was "keep your knees bent."
sink/fall/drop to your knees• Carmine drops to his knees, lifts up my skirt, pulls down my underpants.• As the pilgrims passed, peasants who had gathered from the countryside sank to their knees.• When Blue Beard returns, he falls to his knees and hugs his wife.• The mestizo fell to his knees, but he still held the knife.• As Nelson paraded in front of the jury, the pants fell to his knees.• Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.• As she sank to her knees, the Reichsmarschall felt the winkle underneath the whale begin to rise.• So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her.
knee2 verb [transitiveT + in]  
HITto hit someone with your knee 用膝盖顶 [撞]
 I kneed him in the groin.
我用膝盖顶他的下身。
Examples from the Corpus
knee• She struggled free and kneed her attacker in the groin.• He must have felt that Fate, having knocked him down, had nipped back to knee him in the nuts.
Origin knee1
Old English cneow
knee1 nounknee2 verb
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