chink
英[t???k]
- n. 裂縫；叮當聲；裂口
- vi. 叮當響
- vt. 使叮當響
詞態變化
復數:?chinks;第三人稱單數:?chinks;過去式:?chinked;過去分詞:?chinked;現在分詞:?chinking;
助記提示
chink：輕磕。輕輕一磕它就裂了——裂縫。
chink?????????????????裂縫，弱點“頃刻間產生了裂縫，暴露了弱點”
中文詞源
Chink 中國佬
由China構出來的貶義詞。
chink 丁當聲擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- chink
- chink: English has three words chink. The one denoting the sharp metallic sound [16] is purely onomatopoeic. The one meaning ‘small hole’ [16] is something of a mystery, but it may be an alteration of chine ‘fissure’ [14] (best known today as the term for a coastal ravine in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), which came from Old English cinu. Chink as a demeaning term for a Chinese person [19] is a facetious formation based on China or Chinese.
- chink (n.1)
- "a split, crack," 1530s, with parasitic -k + Middle English chine (and replacing this word) "fissure, narrow valley," from Old English cinu, cine "fissure," related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," common Germanic (compare Old Saxon and Old High German kinan, Gothic uskeinan, German keimen "to germinate;" Middle Dutch kene, Old Saxon kin, German Keim "germ;" ), from PIE root *geie- "to sprout, split open." The connection being in the notion of bursting open.
- chink (n.2)
- "a Chinaman," 1901, derogatory, perhaps derived somehow from China, or else from chink (n.1) with reference to eye shape.
- chink (n.3)
- "sharp sound" (especially of coin), 1580s, probably imitative. As a verb from 1580s. Related: Chinked; chinking.
雙語例句
- 1. I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor.
- 我注意到走廊盡頭的一縷光線。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He peered through a chink in the curtains.
- 他透過簾子之間的縫隙偷看。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a chink in the curtains
- 窗簾上的縫隙
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.
- 他透過墻縫暗中監視他們.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Through the chink he saw the fiery morning of high summer.
- 從這兒的裂縫看出去,他可以看到盛夏火紅的早晨.
來自辭典例句