clink

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n. 叮当声 v. (使)发叮当声

发音

US /klɪŋk/

词形变化

clinks 复数 clinks 三单 clinking 现在分词 clinked 过去式 clinked 过去分词

别名

klink

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

    叮当声

    You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.

    1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

  2. 2.

    Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

  3. 1.

    A prison.

    过时 俚语

    If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

    （使）叮当响

    及物/不及物

    The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

  2. 2.

    To rhyme.

    过时 幽默
  3. 1.

    To clinch; to rivet.

    苏格兰 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

jail click slammer chink jailhouse pokey gaol poky

上位词 2

sound correctional institution

下位词 7

lockup bastille workhouse holding cell hoosegow hoosgow house of correction
动词

同义词 3

tink tinkle chink

上位词 2

go sound

词源

From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”). Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call. Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

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