Here's a knocking indeed! * * * * knock! knock! knock * * * * * * Who's there, i' the name o' Beelzebub? * * * Who's there, i' the devil's name? Knock! knock! knock!英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-2》
The murderers heard a knocking, and Macbeth wished it was a knocking which could wake the dead. It was the knocking of Macduff, the chieftain of Fife, who had been told by Duncan to visit him early. Macbeth went to him, and showed him the door of the King's room.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
"This will require reinforcement," said Augustus to the audience. "The place must be attacked by a front and flank movement. It must be knocked down. I tell you I must have it knocked down. How are you to see where he is, I'd like to know, if it's not knocked down?" Augustus's voice was getting high.英文原著 · 《The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories》
I believe in your Inside, not in your Outside, whoever you are, whatever you are, wherever you are. I believe in the Angel of Good inside every block of human marble. I believe it must be carved out in The University of Hard Knocks. I believe all this pride, vanity, selfishness, self-righteousness, hypocrisy and human frailty are the Outside that must be chipped away. I believe the Hard Knocks cannot injure the Angel, but can only reveal it. I hope you are getting your Hard Knocks. I care little about your glorious or inglorious past. I care little about your present.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
The College of Needless Knocks
The Bumps That We Bump Into
NEARLY all the bumps we get are Needless Knocks. There comes a vivid memory of one of my early Needless Knocks as I say that. It was back at the time when I was trying to run our home to suit myself. I sat in the highest chair in the family circle. I was three years old and ready to graduate. That day they had the little joy and sunshine of the family in his high-chair throne right up beside the dinner table. The coffee-pot was within grabbing distance. I became enamored with that coffee-pot.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"En w'en he got in de big road, he ~shuck de dew oWn his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house. W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet fas'. Brer Fox knock. Nobody ain't ans'er. Brer Fox knock. Nobody ans'er. Den he knock agin-blam! Den Brer Rabbit holler out mighty weak:英文原著 · 《Uncle Remus》
Do you have any idea how hard it is To laugh at a knock-knock joke that starts with, "Knock-knock-knock, Amy, Knock-knock-knock, Amy, knock-knock-knock, Amy"?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》