knee
knee 英 [ni:] 美 [ni]
n. 膝盖，膝
名词复数:knees
- Your knee is the joint in your leg that joins your thigh with your shin, making it possible for you to bend your leg. Without knees, you'd walk like a Barbie doll on very stiff legs.
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- n. 膝盖，膝
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1. a knee injury
膝关节受伤
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2. a knee patch
膝部的补丁
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3. I grazed my knee when I fell.
我摔了一跤，把膝盖擦破了。
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4. She was on her knees scrubbing the floor.
她跪着刷洗地板。
- knee (n.) "joint between the principal bones of the leg," Old English cneo, cneow "knee," from Proto-Germanic *knewam (source also of Old Norse kne, Old Saxon kneo, Old Frisian kni, Middle Dutch cnie, Dutch knie, Old High German kniu, German Knie, Gothic kniu), from PIE root *genu- (1) "knee; angle." For pronunciation, see kn-.
- knee (v.) early 13c., "to bend the knee, kneel," from Old English cneowian, from cneow (see knee (n.)). The meaning "to strike with the knee" is first recorded 1892. Related: Kneed; kneeing.
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