Picture a thin metal blade with an edge on it and a handle to hold it by. In your hand it goes through things that would otherwise resist — bread, rope, skin. Everything else this word does comes from those two facts: it cuts easily, and pointed at a person it hurts.
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
knifenoun/ˈnaɪ̯f/
- 1
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.
- Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.
- 2
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- 3
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
knifeverb/ˈnaɪ̯f/
- 1
To cut with a knife.
- 2
To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
- One day his sergeant began to cane him, on which, seizing his knife, he knifed the sergeant : he knifed the privates : he knifed until he was finally overpowered, and, brought before a court-martial, was condemned to fifteen years at the galleys.
- 3
To cut through as if with a knife.
- The boat knifed through the water.
- 4
To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- 5
To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。