sink
美 [s??k]
英 [s??k] 
- v.下沉;沉沒;沉降;下陷
- adj.位于貧窮地區的;貧民窟的
- n.洗碗槽
- 網絡水槽;洗滌槽;接收器
詞形變化
過去式:sank 過去式:sunk sunk 過去式:sunken 第三人稱單數:sinks 現在分詞:sinking 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
在水╱泥等里in water/mud, etc.
1. | [i] 下沉;下陷;沉沒to go down below the surface or towards the bottom of a liquid or soft substance |
| The ship sank to the bottom of the sea. 船沉入海底。 |
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| The wheels started to sink into the mud. 車輪漸漸陷進泥里。 |
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船只boat
2. | [t] ~ sth 使下沉;使沉沒to damage a boat or ship so that it goes below the surface of the sea, etc. |
| a battleship sunk by a torpedo 被魚雷擊沉的戰列艦 |
倒下;坐下fall/sit down
3. | [i] + adv./prep. 倒下;坐下to move downwards, especially by falling or sitting down |
| I sank into an armchair. 我坐到扶手椅上。 |
| She sank back into her seat, exhausted. 她筋疲力盡,又坐回椅子上。 |
| The old man had sunk to his knees . 老頭跪在了地上。 |
下降move downwards
4. | [i] 下沉;下陷;沉降to move slowly downwards |
| The sun was sinking in the west. 太陽西下。 |
| The foundations of the building are starting to sink. 樓房的地基開始下陷。 |
減弱become weaker
5. | [i] 降低;減少;減弱to decrease in amount, volume, strength, etc. |
| The pound has sunk to its lowest recorded level against the dollar. 英鎊對美元的比價降到了有記錄以來最低水平。 |
| He is clearly sinking fast(= getting weaker quickly and will soon die) . 很明顯,他的身體在急劇衰弱。 |
聲音of voice
6. | [i] 變低;變小to become quieter |
| Her voice sank to a whisper. 她的聲音變成了耳語。 |
在地上挖掘dig in ground
7. | [t] ~ sth 挖,掘(深坑、深洞)to make a deep hole in the ground |
| to sink a well/shaft/mine 掘水井╱豎井╱礦井 |
8. | [t] ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) 埋入;打下to place sth in the ground by digging |
| to sink a post into the ground 在地下埋入一根桿子 |
使不成功prevent success
9. | [t]
~ sth/sb 使失敗;使受挫;阻撓to prevent sb or sb's plans from succeeding |
| I think I've just sunk my chances of getting the job. 我想,我剛剛葬送了得到那份工作的機會。 |
| If the car breaks down, we'll be sunk(= have serious problems) . 要是車壞了,咱們可就慘了。 |
球ball
10. | [t] ~ sth (高爾夫球)擊球入洞;(斯諾克)擊球入袋to hit a ball into a hole in golf or snooker |
| He sank a 12-foot putt to win the match. 他以一記 12 英尺的輕擊入洞贏了比賽。 |
酒alcohol
11. | [t]
~ sth 猛喝;灌to drink sth quickly, especially a large amount of alcohol |
1. | (廚房里的)洗滌池,洗碗槽a large open container in a kitchen that has taps/faucets to supply water and that you use for washing dishes in |
| Don't just leave your dirty plates in the sink! 別把臟盤子往洗碗槽里一放就不管了! |
| I felt chained to the kitchen sink(= I had to spend all my time doing jobs in the house) . 我覺得就像拴在了灶臺上一樣。 |
1. | [obn] 位于貧窮地區的;貧民窟的located in a poor area where social conditions are bad |
| the misery of life in sink estates 貧民窟里的悲慘生活 |
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習慣用語
be sunk in sth
陷入不快(或沉思)中to be in a state of unhappiness or deep thought
| She just sat there, sunk in thought. 她只一味地坐在那兒,陷入了沉思。 |
(like rats) deserting/leaving a sinking ship
(比喻只顧自己而離開處于困境中的機構等)(像)逃離沉船(的老鼠)used to talk about people who leave an organization, a company, etc. that is having difficulties, without caring about the people who are left
sink your differences
摒棄分歧;擱置歧見to agree to forget about your disagreements
a/that sinking feeling
不祥的感覺;沮喪之情an unpleasant feeling that you get when you realize that sth bad has happened or is going to happen
sink or swim
不自救,必沉淪;自己努力,以求生存to be in a situation where you will either succeed by your own efforts or fail completely
| The new students were just left to sink or swim. 學校完全讓新生自生自滅。 |
sink so low|sink to sth
墮落到這種地步;沉淪到某種程度to have such low moral standards that you do sth very bad
| Stealing from your friends? How could you sink so low? 偷到你的朋友頭上了?你怎么能墮落到這種地步呢? |
| I can't believe that anyone would sink to such depths. 我無法相信竟然有人能墮落到這種程度。 |
英漢解釋
v. | 2. (日,月等)沉入地平線下;低落;下垂;下沉,坍下去,塌下去,下陷 3. (聲音等)低落;(火勢)減弱;(病人等)衰弱;(精神等)沮喪,消沉;衰頹,淪落,敗落,墮落 (into under) 4. (水等)沁進,滲下,滲入;(教訓等)深入(心里等) (in into through) 6. (眶,雙頰等)凹下去;(眼睛)低垂;(坡等)斜下去 8. 掘,鑿,挖(井等);(把樁,管子等)向下挖掘,打進,插進,埋入(地下等);(將石頭等)嵌入(墻壁等);【冶】雕,刻 10. 減少,減低(力量等),使(股票等)跌價;糟蹋掉,喪失,蕩盡(財產等) 11. 使衰弱,使沒落,使敗落;損害,毀壞(名譽等);使頹然下垂,垂下來 13. 償還(國債等);投資給(難以收回成本的事業) |
n. | 1. (廚房的)洗滌糟;水斗,水糟,水池;陰溝;滲水坑;【地】落水洞;〈美俚〉海洋 |
英英解釋
例句
Ships can take a lot of pounding. But just a few torpedoes will sink you. Watch out for submarine and torpedo bombers.
艦船很容易被魚雷擊沉,注意潛艇和魚雷轟炸。
When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, werealized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.
當我們兩年前搬進一套租用的公寓時,我們認識到,業主身份早就是沉重的負擔,隨時沉沒,而且還是一個填不滿的錢坑。
Draco Malfoy was standing with his back to the door, his hands clutching either side of the sink, his white-blond head bowed.
德拉科·馬爾福正背對著門站著,他的雙手緊握著水槽的兩邊,他有著鉑金色頭發的腦袋低著。
The kitchen was of most interest, with a sink and a stove but, "No food, " I said, in disappointment.
廚房是最能引起我們興趣的地方,可里面除了一個洗槽和一個爐子,什么都沒有。“沒吃的。”我用失望的口氣說。
One can place the pan in a sink full of cool water with a few ice cubes to speed up the process, but make sure not to over cool.
你可以將平底鍋放在水槽中加入冷水和小冰塊來加速其過程,但請確保不要冷卻過度。
The so-called Loose lips sink ships, but will sometimes in an awkward position, this situation is often in the interview.
所謂言多必失,有時候反而會讓處于尷尬的境地,這種情形在面試中是經常出現的。
Until quite recently, it was possible to say that rescuing the financial system was calculated to save rather than sink liberal capitalism.
直到不久前,我們可能還可以說,為金融體系紓困意在拯救、而非葬送自由資本主義。
When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, we realized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.
幾年前當我們搬進出租屋后,我們發現所有權其實是個負擔,是個時間無底洞,是一個金錢陷阱。
Provided is an electronic apparatus capable of also supplying sufficient air flow to a heat generating device other than the heat sink.
提供一種電子設備,即使對于散熱器以外的發熱裝置也能夠供給足夠的空氣流。
The mattress that allows you to sink into a deep, natural sleep and wake up in the morning without aches and pains is the one you want.
床墊,讓您陷入深度,自然睡眠,醒來早無疼痛和痛苦是你想要的。
Most offices have some sort of kitchenette with at least a sink and a microwave.
大多數公司里都有類似小廚房的地方,里面至少有一個水槽和一臺微波爐。
The simplest consist of a single room with a sink in the corner and a toilet behind a partition.
最簡單的戶型只有一個單間,在角落里有一個洗臉臺,廁所在隔墻后面。
Essentially, it requires a degree in mechanical engineering to understand, but suffice it to say it has everything but the kitchen sink.
更要命的是,它需要一個機械工程學位才能理解其原理,不過只要說“除了廚房水槽沒有,它什么都有”就夠嚇人了。
What he really wanted was to dive off the bridge, smash through the ice and sink down to the bottom to freeze there like a dead fish.
他真想一下子跳下去,頭朝下,砸破了冰,沉下去,像個死魚似的凍在冰里。
She also shows off her stellar sartorial taste quite often, stopping at nothing to sink her teeth into a good pair of expensive shoes.
她也經常的炫她的卓越的縫紉品位,是因為她經常會毫無顧忌得用牙咬一雙很貴的鞋。
0 But seeing the strong wind, he became frightened; and as he began to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me!
0只因見風甚大,就害怕,將要沈下去,便喊著說,主啊,救我!
Bed, closet, table, chair, a shelf on the wall over the table, a sink and toilet in the corner behind the door.
床,壁櫥,桌子,椅子,桌上方墻壁上的書架,門后角落里的水池和廁所。
Steve Kroft: When was the first moment that it began to sink in that you were President of the United States? Do you remember?
記:你是從什么時候開始意識到自己已經成了美國總統了?還記得嗎?。
If the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.
如果這個國家整個塌陷到那里去,把這一切悲慘而不義的現象一古腦都埋葬的話,我寧愿跟它一起毀滅。
We recently got the chance to see her German tattoo and talk to her about how she had to sink or swim when she got to Germany.
我們最近有機會看見她的德文紋身,并詢問她剛到德國時,如何“自主沉浮”。
If the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.
如果這個國家整個塌陷到那里去,把這一切悲慘而不義的現象一古腦都埋葬的話,我寧愿跟它一起毀滅。
I had a weight of guilt upon me enough to sink any creature who had the least power of reflection left.
我有一個罪惡的重擔壓在身上,但凡有點反省能力的人都會給這重擔壓倒下去。
Power densities that can be tolerated by a gage are strongly related to the specimen which serves as the heat sink.
應變片所能允許的電能密度與起著散熱器作用的試件密切相關。
He desired not to be pinnacled, but to sink into the crowd.
他不想出人頭地,只愿深入群眾之中。
The boat will sink unless we bail out.
我們若不排水,船就要沉。
Any love she might win would sink simultaneously with the sand in the glass.
她所能得到的那點愛情將要和沙漏里的沙子同歸于盡。
Water from the kitchen sink overflowed onto the floor.
廚房洗滌槽的水漫到了地板上。
In the process of moving the filled pot onto the sink counter, she slips and the pot smashes on the floor.
正當她把裝著水的罐子往水池臺上搬時,身子一滑,罐子落到地上摔得粉碎。
The pen belongs under the sink.
鍋應該放在洗碗池下面。
One would have expected that they two might have therefore been able to sink their differences.
人們曾期待他們倆人能消除彼此的分歧。
The one we have installed has not reached the lowermost position yet. You might as well open it and press it down to see if it will sink.
我們組裝好的那個沒有達到最低位置,你可以打開,往下壓,看是否下沉。
The biggest blobs can sink to the sea floor, acting like a blanket, and smothering life at the bottom.
最大的黏液團可以沉到海底,就像毯子一樣窒息海底生物。
The sun had begun to sink, the air was a golden haze.
太陽已開始落山,空中迷漫著金黃色的暮靄。
Dead zones form when big balloons of phytoplankton at the surface trigger large quantities of organic matter, which then sink to the bottom.
當浮游植物大量爆發時,在其表面會觸發大量的有機物質聚集,然后(浮游植殘骸)下沉到水底,死亡帶就會形成。
As she failed to offer the required amount of cash as a price to save her drowning son, the woman at last watched her son sink to death.
由于這位婦女一時拿不出所要求的現錢的數目作為救她孩子的回報,最后她眼睜睜地看著兒子淹死。
Sink to inundate here and sorrow of in the atmosphere, seem to be so not to gentle.
在這沉浸和悲傷的氣氛中,顯得那麼不協調。
In Game 1, Wang had been too strong and the pitch did not sink, causing him to abandon his game plan and throw more slides and change ups.
在第一戰時,小王因休息太久而使他的下沉球無法下沉,破壞了他投球計劃而讓他投了許多滑球和變速球。
Then tap with a wooden spoon as you hold them upside down, but keep them close to the bottom of the sink so they don't break.
接著把杯子倒置并用木勺輕輕地敲打,讓這些熱水貼緊底部就能保證碗不被打碎。
Sudan, perhaps more than any other country in this region, seems to have a destructive capacity to sink back to the worst days of its past.
蘇丹可能比這一區域的任何其他國家的毀滅力量都更強,讓這個國家重新回到了自己歷史上最為慘痛的歲月。
Just sink into its unique curvy shape and watch the TV or rest for a while or read a book. You wouldn't actually like to leave it.
就讓自己舒舒服服地坐進這把曲線形的椅子,看一會兒電視,休息一下,或者讀一本書。
more dreams will be deferred and denied. and our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.
就會有更多的家庭失去自己的儲蓄,就會有更多的夢想被推遲、被粉碎。我們的國家就會在危機中陷得更深。到了某個時候,我們可能就無法扭轉局面了。
When she first lost her sight, he watched her sink into despair and he became determined to use every means possible to help his wife.
在蘇珊失明后那頭一段時間,他眼睜睜地看著妻子陷入絕望,因此,他心里打定主意,要用盡一切辦法來幫助她。
Think about this for a moment. . . allow the monumental impact of that statement to sink in and all that encompasses.
想一會兒……允許這個具有重大意義的觀點以及所有的包含內容所帶來的影響消失。
Infected blood on a table, counter, sink, or other surface can pass the virus for up to a week.
受感染的血液表,在桌子,柜臺,水槽,或其他表面上可以傳遞感染病毒長達一個星期的病毒。
After that failed, they complied with orders not to open hatches designed to sink the craft, said the Coast Guard.
哥斯達黎加政府稱,這一企圖失敗后,他們服從了命令,沒有開啟將船只下沉的艙門蓋。
The sun had crept round the tree as a last effort before death, and then began to sink .
夕陽在樹間徘徊,這是落山前最后的殘陽,接著它便開始西沉了。
Nothing's going to sink me although it might be kind of a relief to be finished with moviemaking.
盡管不拍電影了可能會是種解脫,但任何事情也不會使我消沉。
But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me! "
只因見風甚大,就害怕。將要沉下去,便喊著說,主阿,救我。
My wife and I only argue about the big issues, such as whether it's a good idea for her to leave utensils in the sink.
我和我的妻子只會在大事上發生爭吵:例如她把用過的廚房器皿統統放在洗滌槽里是不是個好主意。