英语词汇knots的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knots
词源	knots. Knots measure the speed of a ship at sea, each knot equaling a nautical mile (6,076 feet), which is slightly longer than a land-measured mile (5,280 feet). Since six nautical (geographical) miles are about equal to seven statute (land) English miles, a ship making 12 knots is actually traveling 14 land miles. A ship’s speed came to be measured in knots be- cause the log line thrown overboard to record distance was marked off by knots and had been used to measure a ship’s speed since early times. In its nautical sense knot is first re- corded in 1633.
随便看	i throw a shoe at you it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game it-s chess not checkers it-s greek to me it-s how you played the game it smells of the lamp it-s naughty but it-s nice it-s not brain surgery it-s not cricket it-s not funny it-s not over till the fat lady sings it-s not the size of the dog in the fight it-s the size of the fight in the dog it-s not what it-s cracked up to be

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