knock about / ˈnɒk əˌbaʊt /

磕磕碰碰敲敲打打碰壁磕磕绊绊

knock about2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
  2. something designed or suitable for rough or casual use, as a sturdy jacket, a secondhand car, etc.
  3. a slapstick comedian or comedy.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. suitable for rough use, as a garment: a knockabout jacket and jeans.
  2. characterized by knocking about; rough; boisterous.
  3. slapstick: knockabout comedy.
  4. shiftless; aimless: a knockabout kind of person.

knock about 近义词

v. 动词 verb

roam

更多knock about例句

  1. Doug transports this knockabout grace into “The Mark of Zorro.”
  2. She kept the jeans on for her knockabout, but changed her heels for sneakers and slipped into a grey team GB fleece.
  3. I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.
  4. If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down.
  5. Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk.
  6. At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance.
  7. During that first engagement with the Burr Robbins show I was what was called a “talking and knockabout clown.”