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When you jink, you change direction all of a sudden — a quick dart left or right, not a slow, planned turn. The point is to get out of the way, or to leave someone guessing. Sports writers, especially in rugby and British football, love this word: a player jinks past a tackle. You also hear it of animals, and sometimes of cars or planes. There is a noun too: that sudden move itself is a jink. It feels informal and physical, and you will meet it more in British and South African English than in American English, where dodge or cut is more likely. Though actually, nobody is quite sure where the word came from. It has been around since the 1700s, and it may simply be a sound-word for a quick jerk of the body.
急轉、閃身躲開
組成Origin uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a sound-word for motion. Used since the 18th century. Compare older dialect jick, “to dodge with a sudden jerk of the body.”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jinknoun/d͡ʒɪŋk/
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A quick evasive turn.
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A jack or knucklebone used in the game of jinks (possibly derived from the Scottish game high jinks).
jinkverb/d͡ʒɪŋk/
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To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
- But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkin, / An' cheat you yet.
- Do not jink. This serves no purpose and will only spoil your run in.
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To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
- Jink it he did. Norton pushed the aircraft left just as he was at the bottom of his loop.
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card-gamesgamesIn the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
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To elude; to cheat.
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To clink or chink against.
- So they put on a bit of extra pace and were nearly through that section when they heard voices coming out of a clump of bushes and the sound of plates being jinked together.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。