| 词汇 | sink |
| 释义 | sink verb uk /sɪŋk/ us /sɪŋk/sank or US alsosunk | sunk sinkverb (GO DOWN BELOW)B1[ I or T ] to (cause something or someone to) go down below the surface or to the bottom of a liquid or soft substance: （使）沉没；（使）陷入 The Titanic was a passenger ship which sank (to the bottom of the ocean) in 1912.泰坦尼克号是1912年沉没（海底）的一艘客轮。 The legs of the garden chair sank into the soft ground.花园椅的腿陷入松软的土中。 Enemy aircraft sank two battleships.敌机击沉了两艘军舰。 The dog sank her teeth into(= bit) the ball and ran off with it.狗叼着球跑走了。 Related word sunken We all thought we were done for when the boat started to sink.船开始下沉时我们都觉得这下要完了。 The tanker is listing badly and liable to sink at any moment.油轮严重倾斜，随时都可能会沉没。 It is hoped that the oil slick will sink to the seabed where it would be covered within a few years by sediments and eventually decompose.人们希望浮油会沉到海底，并且在数年内被沉积物覆盖，最终分解。 It's good to sink into a hot tub at the end of a hard day's work. We sank our teeth into the enormous cakes. Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking bail out buoy buoyancy buoyant buoyantly capsize floatation flotation founder ground kickboard outrigger refloat ride run run aground/ashoreidiom scupper scuttle sunken waterlogged sinkverb (FALL)B2[ I ] to (cause something or someone to) fall or move to a lower level: 落下，沉下；降低 The sun glowed red as it sank slowly below the horizon.太阳缓缓沉到地平线下，发出红色的余辉。 Student numbers have sunk considerably this year.今年的学生人数大幅减少。 UKinformalWe sank (= drank) a bottle of wine each last night.昨天晚上，我们每人喝了一瓶葡萄酒。 The wounded soldier sank (= fell)to the ground.受伤的士兵跌倒在地。 She sank back in her chair and closed her eyes.她跌坐在椅子上，闭上了眼睛。 He sank into deep despair (= became very unhappy) when he lost his job.丢掉工作后，他极其绝望。 [ T ] to hit a ball into a hole or pocket, especially in golf or snooker（尤指在高尔夫球或斯诺克运动中）击（球）入洞 Unemployment figures have sunk for the second year running. We sat on the mountain and watched the sun sink below the horizon. The level of teenage pregnancy sank dramatically. He sank to the ground, clutching his chest. They sank to the floor in exhaustion. Moving downwards base jumping descend descent downwardly drop/fall/sink like a stoneidiom fall fall down go down nosedive pancake landing parachute plumb plunge post-dive pronate pronation put something/someone down rain stone touch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Winning, losing & scoring in sport sinkverb (DIG)[ T ] to dig a hole in the ground, or to put something into a hole dug into the ground: 挖，掘（洞）;把…插入，把…埋入（洞里） Sinking more wells is the best way of supplying the population with clean drinking water.要为人们提供清洁的饮用水，最好的方法是挖更多的井。 The first stage of building the fence is sinking the posts into the ground.筑栅栏的第一步是把柱子埋进地里。 See also sunken Digging borer break groundidiom burrow dig dig (yourself) in dig someone/something out drill excavate excavator fork furrow grub grub something up/out mine plough plough something back/in redrill root root something out/up steam shovel sinkverb (FAILURE)[ T ] to cause something to fail or be in trouble: 使失败；使陷入麻烦 This rain could sink our plans for the barbecue.这场雨会让我们的户外烧烤计划泡汤。 Destroying and demolishing annihilate annihilation apocalypse bash bash through (something) be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom consume costly dynamite erosion erosional erosionally erosive sabotage saboteur sack sacking sacrifice scarred wipe Idiomssink your differences sink like a stone sink or swim sink to a whisper sink to such a level/such depths sink without (a) trace sinking fast sinking feeling sinking ship Phrasal verbssink in sink in/sink into something sink into something sink something into something sink noun[ C ] uk /sɪŋk/ us /sɪŋk/ A2 a bowl that is attached to the wall in a kitchen or bathroom in which you wash dishes or your hands, etc.: （厨房的）洗涤槽，洗涤池;（浴室的）洗脸盆 a bathroom/kitchen sink浴室／厨房洗涤池 Image Source/GettyImages We're only going on vacation for a week, but John will insist on taking everything but the kitchen sink.我们只是去度假一周，但约翰还是坚持什么东西都带上。 You'll need a strong abrasive for cleaning this sink.你得用强力磨料才能把这个洗碗槽擦洗干净。 There's no need to get so het up about a few dirty dishes in the sink!没必要因为水槽里有几只脏盘子生这么大气！ Put the plug in the sink and run some water.把洗涤槽排水孔塞上，然后放些水。 The kitchen was in its original state, with a 1920s sink and stove.厨房还保留着最初的样子，有一个20世纪20年代的水槽和炉子。 Washing the dishes dish dish soap dishcloth dishrag dishtowel drainboard drainer draining board draining rack handwash pan scourer roller towel scouring pad scrubber sink unit tea cloth tea towel washing-up washing-up liquid waste disposal You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Bathroom fixtures & fittings sink | American Dictionarysink verb us/sɪŋk/past tensesankus/sæŋk/sunkus/sʌŋk/ | past participlesunkus/sʌŋk/ sinkverb (GO BELOW WATER)[ I/T ] to move below the surface of water: [ I ]The boat filled with water and began to sink. [ T ]It isn’t clear exactly what sank the ship. sinkverb (FALL)[ I/T ] to fall or move to a lower level: [ I ]The sun sank slowly below the horizon. [ I ]Exhausted after the race, she sank to the ground. [ I ]My feet sink into the sand with every step. [ I ]Gasoline prices sank last year. [ I ]Relations between the countries have sunk to a new low. [ I/T ] To sink a ball is to hit it into a hole, as in golf and pool, or throw it through a hoop (= ring with a net) in basketball. sink their teeth into People or animals who sink their teeth into something bite hard: I sank my teeth into the sandwich. sinkverb (DESTROY)[ T ] to cause something to fail: A price war sank the company. I thought these issues would sink his career. Idiomssink or swim sink your teeth into something Phrasal verbssink back sink in sink in sink into something sink into something sink into something sink something into something sink noun[ C ] us/sɪŋk/ sinknoun[C] (CONTAINER)a container for water in a kitchen or bathroom used for washing and connected to pipes that bring and carry off water sink | Business Englishsink verb uk /sɪŋk/ussank | sunk [ I ] if prices, profits, shares, etc. sink, they fall to a lower level: Bond prices sank and stocks rose today. sink to sthThe dollar sank to a record low against the euro. Shares sank 3% Wednesday to close at $39.35. [ I or T ] to go under, or cause something to go under, the surface of the water: The tanker sank off the coast of Alaska. The explosion sank the ship in 300 feet of water. Phrasal verbsink sth into sth Examples of sinksink This is supported by the integral version of the balance law, and the desired effect of the singular sink. A consequence of water current is that dispersal between pairs of sinks occurs downstream. A larger town house that was excavated had a dirt-floor entrance area, equipped with a well and a kitchen sink. A well-targeted criticism expressed on television or radio can sink a policy, regardless of its overall merits. In addition, we use sink annotations explicitly in selecting potential projections for higher-order meta-variables. Stationary nongyrotropies are maintained in an open velocity space by sources and sinks, whereas rotating ones are normally source- and loss-free. This just expresses normal heat conduction with a sink term representing latent heat being taken up by melting. This inclusion is in fact simple because the source/sink terms enter with opposite signs in the equations for ions and neutrals. Our demographic results suggest that this is likely to be due to significant movements between sinks and therefore extremely fast recolonization. Sometimes it took years for his lessons to sink in. Stationary nongyrotropy may be maintained by sources and sinks in velocity space. The data items taken out of the two sinks of this channel are not related to each other. Then the condition on the sinking critical points can also be satisfied. With domain sizes as in figures 15 and 16 the source/sink is almost point-like for an observer. There are two types of channel ends: sources and sinks. See all examples of sink These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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