Chink

(noun.) a short light metallic sound.

(noun.) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall.

(noun.) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent.

(verb.) fill the chinks of, as with caulking.

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• Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She always felt vulnerable, vulnerable, there was always a secret chink in her armour. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink, through which the eye could just penetrate. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Securing one, he returned to the window, and holding the moth to the chink, opened his hand. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He expressed his gratitude to the servants and to Mrs. Horsfall by the chink of his coin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They each looked through a chink in the boards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And between them and the white-haired man afar off, was the one small link, that they had once looked in at him through the chinks in the wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was called Mill Pond Bank, Chinks's Basin; and I had no other guide to Chinks's Basin than the Old Green Copper Rope-walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mill Pond Bank, and Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, all so clear and plain! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He struck his boot upon the ground, so that the guineas chinked within. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Rigaud chinked the money, weighed it in his hand, threw it up a little way and caught it, chinked it again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He chinked it once, and he blew upon it once, and he spat upon it once,--'for luck,' he hoarsely said--before he put it in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Not one was left upon them that night, when he put something that chinked into the doctor's greasy palm. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:梅勒妮