One day,he was sitting on his father's knee.

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Now, let's imagine I've been very lucky and gotten to you-- just get down on your knee.

现在,假设我非常幸运地伤到你了,请蹲下

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.

撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

That large, white knee: the way this narration allows us to see through Haze's eyes Haze the whole body apart, so what he sees is not Mrs. Watts; he sees a large, white knee.

我们可以从描写：,又白又大的膝盖的,这种叙述方式中看到,的眼睛将整个身体，begins，to，take,分解成了部分，所以他看见的并不是Watts太太;,而是她的膝盖。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选