chink

• n. 裂缝；叮当声；裂口
• vi. 叮当响
• vt. 使叮当响

由China构出来的贬义词。

拟声词。

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.

1. I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor.

我注意到走廊尽头的一缕光线。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He peered through a chink in the curtains.

他透过帘子之间的缝隙偷看。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a chink in the curtains

窗帘上的缝隙

来自《权威词典》

4. He watched them secretly, through a chink in the wall.

他透过墙缝暗中监视他们.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Through the chink he saw the fiery morning of high summer.

从这儿的裂缝看出去,他可以看到盛夏火红的早晨.

来自辞典例句