However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.

可他却说声音住在一株空树里的大猫头鹰发出来的。这只猫头鹰的脑袋里装的全智慧。它不停地把脑袋撞着树。

Then it knocked against the inn door and we did not breathe.

接着我们听到棍子敲门的声音，我们屏住呼吸。

In his rush, he knocked against 22.

匆忙之中，他撞到了22号身上。

I circled the problem again and again, beat my fists on it, knocked my head against it … and then one day when I was thinking of nothing much at all, the answer came to me.

我绕着这问题转了一圈又一圈，捶胸顿足想破了头… … 突然有一天，我没想的时候，答案就来了。

After all, the most common knock against Haiti is that it's the poorest country in the very wealthy western hemisphere. But being poor in a rich neighborhood is not a sin. It's a launching pad.

毕竟，对海地最常见的批评，它富裕的西半球最贫穷的国家。但在富裕的社区里贫穷并不一种罪过，而一个发射台。

He was tugging and pulling and the Wolf seemed neither alive nor dead, and its bared teeth knocked against his forehead, and everything was blood and heat and hair.

他用力拖啊，拉啊，那匹狼既不像死了，不像活着，露出一口牙磕在他的额头上，一切都沾满了血、热气和皮毛。

Distraught, faltering, reeling, Charles wandered about the room. He knocked against the furniture, tore his hair, and the chemist had never believed that there could be so terrible a sight.

夏尔丧魂失魄，话说不清楚，几乎站不住了，只在房里转来转去。 他撞在家具上，扯自己的头发，药剂师从来没有想到他会做出这样吓人的事来！

The trumpet banged against the slate, the slate knocked against the moneybag, the lifesaving medal clinked against the chalk pencil but Louis was airborne again.

路易斯升上了天空。小号碰上了石板，石板撞着了钱袋，救生奖章在石笔上叮当作响但路易斯总算又能飞翔了。

I mentioned this in one of my videos on self-discipline in the past and some viewers took it as a knock against gaming.

我在过去的一期关于自律的视频中提到过这一点，一些观众认为这对游戏的抨击。

He's frightened. The Easterner knocked his pipe against the stove. He's frightened right out of his senses.

他吓坏了。" 伊斯特纳把烟斗敲在炉子上，" 他吓坏了。"

His trumpet banged against his slate, his slate knocked against his medal, his medal rapped against his chalk pencil, and his chalk pencil on its string wound itself around his moneybag.

他的小号撞着他的石板，他的石板敲着他的奖章，他的奖章碰着他的石笔，他那用绳子栓住的石笔绕在他的钱袋上。

The strephopode was writhing in hideous convulsions, so that the machine in which his leg was enclosed was knocked against the wall enough to break it.

畸形足患者正在痛苦地抽搐，结果装在腿上的机器撞在墙上，简直要撞出洞来。

So the Rams are just knocking people out against the spread recently.

所以最近拉姆斯队在让分盘上频频击溃对手。

Knock against him as he do it, did it in the Mountain West.

他在山地联盟中完成这一壮举时，确实受到了一些质疑。

The main knock against Amazon is that the tariffs will crush their core e-commerce business.

针对亚马逊的主要批评在于，关税将重创其核心的电子商务业务。

People were knocking against the door, and the janitors could not obtain silence.

人们在敲门，看门人无法安静下来。

Today my heart knocked heavily against the doors of my breast.

今天，我的心重重地敲击着我的胸膛。

I promised I would, and he departed, but it seems as if I was doomed to see a good deal of him, for today as I passed his door on my way out, by accident I knocked against it with my umbrella.

我答应了，他就走了，但似乎我注定要经常见到他，因为今天我出去的时候经过他的门，不小心用雨伞敲了敲门。

By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.

此时，姐姐已全然不顾一切，她猛扑向乔，揪住他的两撇胡子，把他的脑袋在身后的墙上撞了好一会儿，而我则坐在角落里，内疚地看着这一切。

Another good day's work; they were knocking against the wall, the silk department must have cleared ten thousand francs; or else he made merry, not a sound came from behind the wall, a showery day had killed the receipts.

又美好的一天工作；他们在敲墙，丝绸部门肯定已经清算了一万法郎；要不然他就开开心心了，墙后一点声音没有，下了一场雨的日子把收据冲淡了。