chink

• n. 裂縫；叮當聲；裂口
• vi. 叮當響
• vt. 使叮當響

由China構出來的貶義詞。

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.

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.

他透過牆縫暗中監視他們.

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