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knight

/nahyt/US // naɪt //UK // (naɪt) //

骑士,大侠,侠士,爵士

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
    • : a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct.
    • : any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.
    • : a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the titleSir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.
    • : a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.
    • : Chess. a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically.
    • : Nautical. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dub or make a knight.

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Examples

  • Knight also noted the anti-LGBTQ crackdown across Indonesia.

  • Knight and his wife gave more than $900 million to the Knight Foundation and $300 million to the University of Oregon.

  • Knight, a tall, imposing figure with penetrating blue eyes, was sent back into the army only to desert again, making his way home on foot.

  • “I don’t think they’re really feeling it right now,” Knight said.

  • Instead, Knight’s team had planned to use other materials that can generate current from the swaying of trees.

  • So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.

  • Scalise was a state representative old enough to remember the notoriety of Farrell and Knight from years before.

  • “Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” Knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.

  • The worthy knight not being now alive to veto the project, a figure of him has been placed opposite the College in Edmund Street.

  • That brave knight was my great, great grandfather, and he has often sat in this very chair in which I am sitting now.

  • The handsome person and gallant bearing of the youthful knight excited general sympathy and regret.

  • But to a Knight of Industry, as he knew the Count to be, a certain thousand pounds would be a great temptation.

  • According to Froissart, he was 'esteemed the bravest and most enterprising knight in the two kingdoms.'