Knocker

(noun.) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door.

(noun.) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); 'open the door and see who the knocker is'.

(noun.) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person.

录入:费尔普斯

• There was a knocker upon the door, but it was not that which made the sound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He hammered loudly at the knocker and pulled at the bell, but without any success. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• At five minutes before eight her hand was on the Patriarchal knocker, which was quite as high as she could reach. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She had the street laid knee-deep with straw; and the knocker put by with Mr. Bowls's plate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Making free with neither bell nor knocker, he struck upon the door with the top of his staff, and, having listened, sat down on the threshold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He was a good little fellow, Paragon would often say, but his face was so like a knocker! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• What are you a-settin' down there for, con-wertin' your face into a street-door knocker, wen there's so much to be done. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Clapp's brass plate was still on the door, at the knocker of which Dobbin performed a summons. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I cannot find any knocker, my lord,' said the footman, at our carriage-door, after fumbling about for some time. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• What business had I to approach the white door or touch the glittering knocker? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He had hardly finished one long resounding knock, when he turned to the knocker again and began another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• We are quiet here; we don't get badgered here; there's no knocker here, sir, to be hammered at by creditors and bring a man's heart into his mouth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:马里恩