sunk的意思|sunk的解释-里氏词典

sunk [sʌŋk]

a. 凹陷的
sink的过去式和过去分词

sunk

[ adj ]
doomed to extinction
<adj.all>

Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Sunk} (s[u^][ng]k), or
({Sank} (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now
used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS.
sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel.
s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably
to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.]
1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend
lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a
stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks
in the west.

I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2.

2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the
surface; to penetrate.

The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii.
49.

3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to
enter completely.

Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke
ix. 44.

4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the
ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in
strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak.

He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix.
24.

Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer.

5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become
diminished in volume or in apparent height.

The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison.

Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay;
decrease; lessen.

Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Sunk} (s[u^][ng]k), or
({Sank} (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. {Sunk} (obs. {Sunken}, -- now
used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sinking}.] [OE. sinken, AS.
sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel.
s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably
to E. silt. Cf. {Silt}.]
1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend
lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a
stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks
in the west.

I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2.

2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the
surface; to penetrate.

The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii.
49.

3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to
enter completely.

Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke
ix. 44.

4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the
ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in
strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak.

He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix.
24.

Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer.

5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become
diminished in volume or in apparent height.

The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison.

Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay;
decrease; lessen.

Sunk \Sunk\,
imp. & p. p. of {Sink}.

{Sunk fence}, a ditch with a retaining wall, used to divide
lands without defacing a landscape; a ha-ha.

Consumer and business confidence have sunk over the summer as growth has dwindled.
Relations between the two countries have sunk to their lowest point in years.
The brewing and leisure sectors have similar property portfolios, yet the full significance of the change does not yet appear to have sunk in.
"The chances of finding any survivors have sunk to zero," said Hesse state mining director Wolf Boettcher.
Divers have discovered 55 Japanese warships, cargo boats and submarines sunk during World War II off Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, the government announced.
Butler told Coast Guard officials their boat was attacked and sunk by "several" whales about 1,200 miles southwest of Costa Rica.
But NutraSweet, which has already sunk $100 million into developing the ingredient, won't even come close to that next year.
Tehran's military problems were heightened by its defeat by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf on April 18, when six of its naval craft were sunk or disabled.
Radio messages recorded the morning the Exxon Valdez ran aground show the ship's captain spent up to an hour trying to rock the tanker free, a move the Coast Guard says could have sunk the ship.
The number of visitors to Guernsey has sunk to an all-time low, with a 20 per cent drop over the past two years.
"That is totally impossible in any hotel market on earth," he says, adding that in his view it needs to be written down "to a level probably less than one-third that sunk into it.
'We've sunk Dollars 175m into bio-engineered food over the last few years,' says Salquist.
Some of them are sunk." Torrential rains that turned streets into rivers in Jacksonville, Fla., continued to drench parts of the South today, and a cold weather system spread from the Great Lakes area toward New England.
Retail sales alone have sunk by 40 per cent since hostilities broke out in the former Yugoslavia, the chamber of commerce reckons.
The moisture probe that farmer and cattleman Jerry Porter poked into the central Kansas wheat field sunk only a couple of inches and brought up dust instead of damp, compacted earth.
The Catherine-Rose, which was carrying a crew of 17, sunk after the collision.
And more work is needed at Kiska, where more submarines and destroyers are known to have been sunk.
Philadelphia's rating has sunk this year to junk-bond level, the lowest among major U.S. cities.
Since the October stock market crash, however, the dollar has sunk an average of about 7% against major currencies.
They denied saying the vessel, sunk in 1512, carried $3 billion in gold and precious stones.
It's for people's health." Coast Guard officials said less of the 17-mile slick was visible Wednesday, indicating the oil either had begun dissipating or had sunk.
The carrier was dubbed "The Blue Ghost" by Japanese propagandist Tokyo Rose because she had reported it sunk several times only to return to battle painted a solid blue-gray color, unusual in wartime when ships are usually camouflaged.
Then the property market sailed into the doldrums - and we have been in recession ever since. In a bubbly market, no property has more froth than a marina home, but prices have gone flat and boats, like houses, have sunk in value.
"The Mexican government is the principal responsible for the bad administration that sunk Cananea in the inefficiency" that led to bankruptcy, it said in a news release.
The rebels claim to have sunk or captured 12 warships.
Gross national product and living standards have sunk to their levels 20 years ago.
In her initial guise of an IOR one-tonner, Tram was better known as the King of Norway's yacht Fram XI, sunk so spectacularly last year by Harold Cudmore during the Admiral's Cup. Also competing is a Welsh team.
An Indian helicopter sunk a boat in the Batticaloa lagoon during the operation and about nine people died, he said.
In response, yields on short-term Treasurys sunk to the lowest levels in two decades.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge James J. Rashid told Susan Barbier, 29, that she had "sunk to an intolerable level of humanity" in the May 1988 indident, for which she was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

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