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knell (for sb/sth)
多用于文学或庄严语境，指钟声缓慢而哀伤地鸣响，以悼念逝者。
The church bells knelled for the soldiers killed in battle.
教堂的钟声为阵亡将士缓慢鸣响。
敲丧钟；缓慢鸣响
knells — third person singular of knell
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
敲丧钟；缓慢鸣响
to ring a bell slowly and solemnly, especially for a funeral; to toll
The church bells knelled for the soldiers killed in battle.
教堂的钟声为阵亡将士缓慢鸣响。
慢慢敲钟,尤指丧钟；鸣钟。
To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
通过敲钟来发出信号或宣布某事(尤指死亡)。
To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
敲钟以宣布死亡
ring as in announcing death
通过敲钟召集,或仿佛通过敲钟召集。
To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.
knell
Base
原形
knells
3rd person
第三人称单数
knelling
-ing
现在分词
knelled
Past
过去式
knelled
Past participle
过去分词
The bell knells for the fallen.
丧钟为倒下的人而鸣。
The church knelled at noon.
教堂在正午敲响了丧钟。
The bell is knelling slowly.
钟正在缓缓敲响丧钟。
knell 作动词时意为‘敲丧钟；发出丧钟般的声音’，常用于书面语，为规则动词。
The church bell knelled slowly as the coffin was carried inside.
棺材抬进去时，教堂的钟缓缓地敲响了丧钟。
Each time the bell knells, the townspeople know someone has died.
每次钟声敲响丧钟，镇上的人就知道有人去世了。
The distant bell was knelling for the old sailor's funeral.
远处的钟正在为老水手的葬礼鸣响丧钟。
多用于文学或庄严语境，指钟声缓慢而哀伤地鸣响，以悼念逝者。
The church bells knelled for the soldiers killed in battle.
教堂的钟声为阵亡将士缓慢鸣响。
主语通常是钟或铃，宾语为所宣告的事件，常指噩耗或时代的结束。
The bells knelled the death of the old king.
钟声宣告了老国王的驾崩。
较为古雅，后接人作宾语，再接介词 to 引导的地点或活动，表示以钟声召集。
The bell knelled the villagers to the square.
钟声把村民们召唤到广场上。
Not this
The church bell knelled for the death of the president.
Use this
The church bell knelled the death of the president.
当 knell 表示“鸣钟宣告（死亡等）”时是及物动词，后面直接接宣告的内容，不需要介词 for；中文“为……敲响丧钟”的“为”不能直译为 for。
Not this
The bell knell slowly in the tower.
Use this
The bell knells slowly in the tower.
knell 是动词，主语 the bell 是第三人称单数，一般现在时谓语须加 -s；中文动词没有这种形态变化，所以学习者容易漏掉。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
钟声缓缓敲响
The church bells knelled through the cold morning air.
教堂的钟声在寒冷的晨空中缓缓敲响。
为死者敲丧钟
The villagers gathered as the bell knelled for the dead.
钟声为死者敲响，村民们聚集起来。
鸣钟宣告……的离世
The cathedral bells knelled the passing of the beloved bishop.
大教堂的钟声鸣响，宣告敬爱的主教去世。
鸣钟召集会众祷告
The sexton knelled the congregation to morning prayer.
教堂司事鸣钟召集会众做晨祷。
厄运的丧钟；灭亡的先兆
The ancient prophecy was read as the knell of doom for the kingdom.
这个古老的预言被视为王国灭亡的先兆。
敲响丧钟；宣告…的终结
The closure of the factory tolled the knell of the town's industrial era.
工厂的关闭敲响了该镇工业时代的丧钟。
发出丧钟；宣告…的末日
The new technology sounded the knell for traditional photography.
这项新技术宣告了传统摄影的末日。
不要听它，邓肯；因为这是召唤你上天堂或下地狱的丧钟。
Macbeth says this just before killing King Duncan; the bell that summons him to act is a death knell for Duncan.
麦克白在杀死邓肯王之前说了这句话；召唤他去行动的钟声正是邓肯的丧钟。
晚钟敲响，为逝去白昼奏起丧钟。
This is the opening line of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," using the evening bell to signal the end of the day and, by extension, human mortality.
这是托马斯·格雷《乡村墓地挽歌》的开篇句，以晚钟宣告白昼结束，并延伸到人类的死亡。
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k不发音，像bell（钟）去掉b，丧钟慢慢敲响。
语域：formal 常见场景：funerals、literary writing 这个动词比较正式，多用于文学描写或葬礼等庄重场景，日常口语中不常用。
All six words rhyme with knell (/nɛl/): they end with the same /ɛl/ sound. Beware lookalikes with the silent 'k': kneel (/niːl/) and knoll (/noʊl/) have different vowel sounds.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.