knack
knack 英 [næk] 美 [næk]
n. 诀窍；本领；熟练技术；巧妙手法
名词复数:knacks
- If you have a knack for doing something, you do it well. You may have a knack for baking cakes or a knack for cracking jokes. These things come easy to you.
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- n. 诀窍；本领；熟练技术；巧妙手法
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1. He has a knack of teaching arithmetic.
他教算术有诀窍。
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2. On some days, it is the only substantial communication between us, because our kids have an uncanny knack of interrupting all of our conversations.
某些日子里，这就是我们之间仅余的实质性联系，因为孩子们有着不寻常的本领，能将我们之间的交谈统统打断。
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3. Four-year-olds have a knack for bringing the whole world around them into the realm of play.
四岁的小孩有一个本领，将他们周围的整个世界带进自己的游戏领域。
- knack (n.) mid-14c., "a deception, trick, device," a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps from or related to a Low German word meaning "a sharp sounding blow" (compare Middle English knak, late 14c.; German knacken "to crack;" also knap) and of imitative origin. Sense of "special skill" (in some specified activity) is first recorded 1580s, if this is in fact the same word. In old slang (mid-18c. to mid-19c.) nacky meant "full of knacks; ingenious, dexterous." For pronunciation, see kn-.
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