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.
We've got to live in the chinks they leave us. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.