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单词 chink
释义
chink1 nounchink2 verb
chinkchink1 /tʃɪŋk/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINchink1
Origin:
1,3 1500-1600 Probably from chin ‘crack’ (11-16 centuries), from Old English cine2 1500-1600 From the sound
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the chink of knives and forks
  • Through a chink in the shutter we could see Ralph.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Boards let in chinks of dying light from the sky's embers.
  • In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
  • One chink of light had appeared, however: Steve was talking to her.
  • Outside, bigger, rougher rocks were piled up to the eaves, with scant little chinks left for doorways and windows.
  • She could hear laughter and talking and the chink of glasses.
  • The jawless fish, even though their heads were heavily plated with bone, had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes.
  • The ladies' bathhouse is round, with little chinks of windows.
  • The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Perhaps spotting a chink in Clinton's armour, the Republicans have further accused him of stirring up feeling against the war.
  • Perhaps there was a chink in the Tuer armour?
  • The film-makers used a chink in the technological armour to record the candidates in their unguarded, uncensored private moments.
1[countable] a small hole in a wall, or between two things that join together, that lets light or air through SYN  crackchink in The sun came through a chink in the curtains.2[countable] British English a high ringing sound made by metal or glass objects hitting each other SYN  clink:  the chink of coins3a chink in somebody’s armour a weakness in someone’s character or in something they have said, that you can use to attack them
chink1 nounchink2 verb
chinkchink2 verb [intransitive, transitive] British English Verb Table
VERB TABLE
chink
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theychink
he, she, itchinks
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theychinked
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave chinked
he, she, ithas chinked
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad chinked
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill chink
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have chinked
Continuous Form
PresentIam chinking
he, she, itis chinking
you, we, theyare chinking
PastI, he, she, itwas chinking
you, we, theywere chinking
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been chinking
he, she, ithas been chinking
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been chinking
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be chinking
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been chinking
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A few pennies chinked in my pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As they were going up, the Columbia tributaries were also being chinked full of dams.
  • He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather, that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled.
  • I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they mayn't chink.
  • The cracks between the logs are chinked by oakum that I have laboriously pounded in.
if glass or metal objects chink, or if you chink them, they make a high ringing sound when they knock together SYN  clink:  They chinked their glasses and drank a toast to the couple.
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