knell英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).

— […]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.
A sign of the end or demise of something or someone. figuratively

— But at the close of the war there was less thought of what [Britain] had retained than of what she had lost. She was parted from her American Colonies; and at the moment such a parting seemed to be the knell of her greatness.

动词 v.

To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll. intransitive

— I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]
To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell. transitive

— Let thy friends be as the dead in doom, And build to them a final tomb; Let the starred shade that nightly falls Still celebrate their funerals, And the bell of beetle and of bee Knell their melodious memory.
To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell. transitive

词形变化

knells present,singular,third-person knelling participle,present knelled participle,past knelled past knells plural

词汇关系

衍生词

unknelled death knell soul knell

词源

词源 1

From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).

词源 2

From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).