one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir,
据我所知，有位作家花了9个月的时间写了一部有关克什米尔的小说，
新概念英语第四册 Lesson 39 What every writer wants

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

knowledge ['nɑlɪdʒ] 词频1 词根: 知道
n. 了解，理解;知识（表示多方面的知识时有复数knowledges这一用法）;学科;见闻;
💡 know知道+ledge框架 → 知识
"She has acquired a good knowledge of English."
她英语已经学得很好。
近义：idea, learning, notion, background, sageness, sapience 反义：nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
novel ['nɑvl] 词频2 词根: nov
n. （长篇）小说;[法]新法，附律; adj. 新奇的;异常的;
💡 nov新的+el表明人或物 →新奇人物 →新奇的；小说
"Her latest novel is a chronicle of life in a Devon village."
她的最近一部小说是德文郡一个小村庄的生活记事。
近义：hot, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, inexperienced, initial 反义：masterful, practiced, proficient, qualified, skilful, skilled
certain ['sə:tən] 词频1 词根: an
adj. 某一;必然的;已确定的; pron. [动词用复数]某些;
"Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack."
联邦法院有某种州法院所缺乏的特别的东西.
近义：some, inarguable, indisputable, indubitable, invariable, irrefragable 反义：neither, implausible, improbable, uncertain, unlikely, avoidable
spent [[spent]] 词频1
a. 用尽的, 精疲力竭的\\nspend的过去式和过去分词
近义：outworn, unavailable, consumed, depleted, exhausted
nine [naɪn] 词频1
num. 九;九个;第九; n. 九，九个; adj. 九的，九个的;
"They have two children aged six and nine."
他们有两个小孩，一个六岁，一个九岁。

📚 更多「新概念英语第四册」例句

and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
这正是年轻人所热衷追求的。
The Butterfly Effect is the reason.
原因是蝴蝶效应。
First the electroencephalograph (which is simply a device for recording the electrical activity of the brain by attaching electrodes to the scalp) shows that while there is a change in the pattern of activity during sleep,
第一点，脑电图记录仪（不过是一种把电极接到头皮上记录脑电活动的仪器）显示，人在睡眠时大脑活动的方式有变化，
they do not make the further intellectual
但他们没有进一步努力
who rolled balls down inclined planes,
他就是那个使球体沿斜面向下滚动，
from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.
脱离了对自己灵魂最深处世界的探索。