Sink

(noun.) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe.

(noun.) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; 'the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide'.

(verb.) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; 'He sank into bed'; 'She subsided into the chair'.

(verb.) pass into a specified state or condition; 'He sank into nirvana'.

(verb.) fall or descend to a lower place or level; 'He sank to his knees'.

(verb.) cause to sink; 'The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor'.

(verb.) go under, 'The raft sank and its occupants drowned'.

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• I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave it to foundlings from Africay. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They have a vogue for a time, and then sink into oblivion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He could not see a man sink close to him for want of help. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And upon this I decided in my own mind to sink or swim with it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These things sink into my heart, Tom, said Eva,--they sink into my heart, she repeated, earnestly. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Percy Phelps sank back in his chair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I questioned, as I sank tired on the edge of the bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You see, it had been sunk there by the man as wore it, and I got it up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Robert Jordan sunk his elbows into the ground and looked along the barrel at the four riders stopped there in the snow. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I'd ha' liked to plump down aboard of him, neck and crop, with a heavy jump, and sunk him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He sunk into a chair, and moved but once all that night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Instead, he walked toward the bench, and, sinking down upon it, remained lost in deep thought for hours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• While Alexander was overrunning Western Asia, China, under the last priest-emperors of the Chow Dynasty, was sinking into a state of great disorder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And with this, feeling that he could say no more, Dobbin went away, Osborne sinking back in his chair, and looking wildly after him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He felt himself dissolving and sinking to rest in the bath of her living strength. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They then sat down, and when her inquiries after Rosings were made, seemed in danger of sinking into total silence. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The object glitters and sinks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Intensely astonished, Twemlow puts his hand to his forehead, and sinks back in his chair meditating. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If now the air pressure in the tube is restored, the water in the tube sinks again to the level of that in the cistern. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When, however, rain falls on a wooded slope, the action is reversed; a small portion runs off, while the greater portion sinks into the soft earth. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• With sunken cheek and hollow eyes, pale and gaunt, how could I recognize the beloved of Perdita? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Dejah Thoris and I with the other members of the royal family had collected in a sunken garden within an inner courtyard of the palace. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• So, though we had escaped a sunken rock, which we scraped upon in the passage, I thought this escape of rather more importance to me. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Certainly,' said Mr. Snodgrass: for the sunken eye of the dismal man rested on him, and he felt it necessary to say something. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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