chink

In seismically dangerous zones scientists regularly take samples of water from wells and chinks.
Dans les zones sismiquement dangereuses les savants prennent régulièrement les essais de l'eau des puits et les trous.
"Those chinks are very dirty," said Maria.
« Ces macaques sont très sales », dit Maria.
All the chinks in the wall were repaired before we moved in.
Toutes les fissures dans le mur ont été réparées avant que nous emménagions.
Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light.
J'en étais arrivé à cette conclusion, lorsque j'entendis un pas lourd approcher derrière la grande porte ; en même temps, je vis, par une fente, un rai de lumière.
Cracks and chinks were opening that the censors could not patch over, and through them Spanish society absorbed new ideas, books, currents of thought, and artistic values and forms prohibited until then as subversive.
Des failles s'ouvraient que la censure ne parvenait pas à colmater et c'est par ces entrebâillements que la société espagnole absorbait de nouvelles idées, des livres, des courants de pensée, des valeurs et des formes artistiques jusque là interdits pour cause de subversion.
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