sink
sink 英 [sɪŋk] 美 [sɪŋk]
v. 下沉；消沉；降低 n. 水槽；洗涤池，洗碗槽
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- When things sink, they settle or drop to a lower level. If your kayak has a leak, it might fill with water and sink to the bottom of the lake.
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- v. 下沉；消沉；降低
- n. 水槽；洗涤池，洗碗槽
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1. The ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
船沉入海底。
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2. We're sinking!
我们正在下沉！
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3. The wheels started to sink into the mud.
车轮渐渐陷进泥里。
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4. to sink like a stone
立即沉没
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5. I sank into an armchair.
我坐到扶手椅上。
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6. She sank into her seat, exhausted.
她筋疲力尽，又坐到 椅子上。
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7. The sun was sinking in the west.
太阳西下。
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8. Her voice sank to a whisper.
她的声音变成了耳语。
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9. to sink a post into the ground
在地上埋入一根杆子
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10. If the car breaks down, we'll be sunk .
要是车坏了，咱们可就惨了。
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11. Don't just leave your dirty plates in the sink!
别把脏盘子往洗碗槽里一放就不管了！
- sink (n.) early 15c., "cesspool, pit for reception of wastewater or sewage," from sink (v.). Figurative sense of "place where corruption and vice abound" is from 1520s. Meaning "drain for carrying water to a sink" is from late 15c. Sense of "shallow basin (especially in a kitchen) with a drainpipe for carrying off dirty water" first recorded 1560s. In science and technical use, "place where heat or other energy is removed from a system" (opposite of source), from 1855.
- sink (v.) Old English sincan (intransitive) "become submerged, go under, subside" (past tense sanc, past participle suncen), from Proto-Germanic *senkwan (source also of Old Saxon sinkan, Old Norse sökkva, Middle Dutch sinken, Dutch zinken, Old High German sinkan, German sinken, Gothic sigqan), from PIE root *sengw- "to sink."
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