Something long and thin has been pulled round itself and drawn tight, so there is now a hard little lump in it that will not slide open. That lump is the picture behind every use: the rope someone tied, the hair the wind twisted, the shoulder that will not let go, the old hand with its joints standing out. Only the last phrase, get knotted!, steps outside the picture altogether.
From the word’s history
From Middle English knotted, the past participle of the verb knotten (to knot). So the word starts life as the result of an action: something was knotted, and this is how it is now.
來源說 knotted 出自中古英語 knotted，是動詞 knotten（打結）的過去分詞。所以這個字一開始就是「動作留下的結果」：先有人把它繞起來收緊，剩下的狀態就叫 knotted。這也解釋了為什麼它到今天還是一個「已經變成這樣了」的字。
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原始詞典資料5 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。
knottedadj/ˈnɒtɪd/
- 1
Full of knots; knotty.
- These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
- 2
Tied in knots.
- 3
Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
- 4
Having the shape or form of a knot.
- Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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