| 单词 | sink |
| 释义 | sink I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the Atago sinks in 19 minutes — H.W.Baldwin > < the overloaded raft sank below the surface > b. < sinking up to his hips in the snow > < must sink deeper into the morass before we again emerge onto firm ground — Vannevar Bush > c. < whole towns sinking as the earth opens great cracks > 2. a. (1) < letting his head sink to his chest > < peeled off and sank into a cloud layer — W.F.Jenkins > < the hand opens out fully and … quietly sinks down below the waist — Warwick Braithwaite > (2) < water … sinks down in the sandstone and finds its way extremely slowly north — K.S.Sandford > < after the spring floods the brooks sink > (3) < watching the flames sink and the coals begin to glow > (4) < in the general hush his voice sank to a whisper — Waldo Frank > < sounds of voices sinking in the distance > b. < some parts of the mainland are slowly sinking and some rising as time works its changes — American Guide Series: Texas > c. < riding on, he looked back to see the workers sink below the tops of the hedgerows > d. < the sun sank below the western rim of the prairies — F.B.Gipson > < though sun is sunk and darkness near — R.P.Warren > < to follow knowledge like a sinking star — Alfred Tennyson > e. < a spur of hills sinking into the opalescence of the far seas — Osbert Sitwell > < ahead of her the road sank between the autumn fields and the brilliant patches of woods — Ellen Glasgow > 3. a. < the river seems literally to sink into the earth before the hills on the horizon — Tom Marvel > < the ink quickly sinks in the blotting paper > < the kind of psychological poison which sinks so deeply into our system — H.A.Overstreet > b. < the lesson of inflation had not sunk in — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < the gloomy truth has sunk in that the buffalo no longer fill the prairies — D.W.Brogan > < any abstract pattern … may in this way sink into my mind — Herbert Read > < for any picture really to sink into your imagination … it is necessary to carry the feeling of the picture away with you — J.C.Powys > 4. < drew thoughtfully at his pipe and sank into a reverie — Dorothy Sayers > < had sunk morosely into thought — Berton Roueché > < overcome by exhaustion she sank quietly into sleep — Louis Bromfield > 5. a. < the old aristocracy sank in wealth and prestige — F.J.Mather > < architectural training and taste had sunk back into a period of chaos — J.E.Gloag > < should sink back into another Dark Age — Lindsay Rogers > < sink into decay and eventual ruin — Ivor Bulmer-Thomas > < causes the world of custom to sink into its deserved oblivion — C.S.Kilby > < if the writer of fiction turns from this task he will sink deservedly to the level of formalistic entertainer — Elizabeth Janeway > b. < the population … sank from about 20 millions to about 9 — Herbert Agar > < support from public funds had sunk to the vanishing point — C.L.Jones > < real estate values sank to a new low — American Guide Series: New York City > c. < I had sunk considerably in her estimation — Norman Douglas > < no medieval artist sinks so low — G.G.Coulton > < she'd die rather than sink to such a deed — Eden Phillpotts > 6. a. < nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness — Mary W. Shelley > < rose and sank upon her seat … fainting, praying, raving, despairing — Thomas De Quincey > < his legs sink beneath him > b. < he sank down on the steps — Laura Krey > < his body crouched almost as if he were going to sink upon all fours — Edith Sitwell > < widows, bachelors, and old folk would sink back in their chairs with a nostalgic look — Charles Ruffing > 7. a. < in imminent danger of sinking under the tyranny of a succession of small men — T.B.Macaulay > b. < studied this fresh proof of poverty with a sinking heart — T.B.Costain > < sometimes his heart sank when he asked himself whether he and his family were withstanding it — Glenway Wescott > < his courage sank > c. < the frail system had been shattered, and all around saw that she was slowly sinking — William Black > < his frame soon sank under the effects of study, toil, and persecution — T.B.Macaulay > < were chasing a sinking fox and babbling for the kill — G.S.Patton > transitive verb 1. a. < could have sunk the gun down the after hatch — Nevil Shute > < sank his chin on his hands — Christine Weston > b. < the iron clothes post Burton had sunk for her … near the fence — Minnie H. Moody > < framed their rude huts with pairs of light poles sunk in the ground — American Guide Series: New York > < he had been sunken into his grave — Marguerite Young > c. < saw the hideous creature … as it prepared to sink its proboscis — William Beebe > < sank the dagger up to its hilt > — often used with into < sank her nails into the palms of her hands — John Dos Passos > 2. a. < estuaries were cluttered with sunken shipping — Current Biography > < sank his colors in the Rio Grande and led the remnant of his command into Mexico — B.I.Wiley > b. < caissons had been sunk to keep out the water — American Guide Series: Vermont > < men … sunk a grappling hook into position — Erle Stanley Gardner > c. < a wish to sink my mind into everything I saw and did and to absorb it all — Elyne Mitchell > < described the scientist aptly by saying … that he sinks himself in the object — H.A.Overstreet > < some producers can't bear the idea of sinking their own individualities in that of a man perhaps long since dead — Warwick Braithwaite > < sunk in a sea of mystery — W.L.Sullivan > 3. a. < this mine had been sunk to the tenth level — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < hopes … to sink a shaft on the north side of the pyramid — Patrick Smith > < water wells are sunk in various ways — W.J.Miller > < sank a trial pit — O.M.Marashian > b. (1) < sink words in stone > (2) < sink the screwhead level with the wood > < a new kind of pottery … with loop handles sunk in the body on either side — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > 4. < fighting gallantly under odds which would sink a less courageous … people — T.H.Fielding > < sunk to the hovels though he was, he had the rags of a finer past about him — Robert Lynd > < we've got to watch our step clear through … or we're sunk — Christopher Isherwood > — sometimes used as an imprecation < sink me, mister, but ye gave me a turn! I never heard ye open the door — Max Peacock > 5. a. < my motive … will not sink me in your esteem — Jane Austen > < his prestige in society was sunk — Virginia Woolf > b. archaic 6. a. obsolete b. < the ship gradually sank the coast > 7. a. archaic b. (1) < trouble enough to sink a much younger man > < seemed too sunken under the heat to take any notice of who took their passports — Dan Jacobson > (2) < sink your bow with repeated flexings > 8. a. archaic b. < he went on, sinking his voice — Hugh Walpole > 9. a. < sank his old name when he got his title > b. (1) < has a habit of sinking unpleasant truths > (2) c. d. (1) < so to sink our personality as to be ready to drift with every current of opinion — S.J.Brown > < men are able to sink passions for the good of the race — Waldemar Kaempffert > < sinks her pride and approaches the despised neighbor — Richard Harrison > (2) < induce rival groups to sink their differences in the face of common danger — C.L.Jones > < was ready to sink his republicanism so long as the nation was made — Times Literary Supplement > 10. archaic 11. 12. a. < no government could take land away from settlers who have sunk skill and capital in it for 50 years — Elspeth Huxley > < will sink something over a million dollars into this plant just as a starter — Green Peyton > b. < were more inclined to hurry past a town where they had sunk money that would never come back — Willa Cather > < in undertaking to make this a sylvan retreat he sunk a large part of his patrimony — I.J.Cox > 13. < sink preface four picas > 14. < sinks foul shots consistently > < sank the eight ball in the corner pocket > < always sinks his putts > Synonyms: see fall • - sink one's teeth - sink or swim II. 1. a. (1) (2) < the sea is the sink of the earth > < making sinks of our rivers > b. c. 2. a. < came to be a sink of debauchery, vice, and crime — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < will seem to him a sink of mediocrity and human indecency — V.S.Pritchett > < known as a sink of iniquity > b. < from this sink of sin and bawdy carousal issued murderers, sneak thieves, footpads, burglars, harlots, arsonites, and swindlers of every variety — Herbert Asbury > 3. obsolete 4. 5. a. b. 6. obsolete 7. archaic 8. 9. 10. |
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