chink

英 [t???k]

擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?chinks;第三人稱單數(shù):?chinks;過去式:?chinked;過去分詞:?chinked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?chinking;

chink：輕磕。輕輕一磕它就裂了——裂縫。

chink?????????????????裂縫，弱點(diǎn)“頃刻間產(chǎn)生了裂縫，暴露了弱點(diǎn)”

Chink 中國佬

由China構(gòu)出來的貶義詞。

chink 丁當(dāng)聲

擬聲詞。

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.

4. He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.: 他透過墻縫暗中監(jiān)視他們.

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.