Knack

(v. i.) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

(v. i.) To speak affectedly.

(n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

(n.) A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

(n.) Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.

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• They have the strangest knack of startling you with unpleasant surprises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She wondered at herself, as she had so often wondered, that, possessing the knack, she did not more consistently exercise it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• You have the knack of torturing those who love you, beyond the possibility of endurance! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But doors and listeners have a knack of getting together; and, in my line of life, we cultivate a healthy taste for the open air. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Some men have a knack of keeping appointments; and other men have a knack of missing them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Some fine, slight fingers have a wondrous knack at pulverizing a man's brittle pride. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When attacked sometimes, Becky had a knack of adopting a demure ingenue air, under which she was most dangerous. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He's too old to acquire the knack of it now--and too drunk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Whitney had been a good student, had an attractive personality, and had already shown a natural knack for mechanics. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The room altogether was full of knick-knacks, which must take a long time to dust; and time to people of limited income was money. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Of all the little knick-knacks in your dressing-case, there wasn't one that had so much as a speck on it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Edith was impatient to get well, in order to fill Margaret's bed-room with all the soft comforts, and pretty nick-knacks, with which her own abounded. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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