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sunken ['sʌŋkәn]

a. 沉没的, 下凹的
sink的过去分词

sunken

[ adj ]
having a sunken area
<adj.all>
hunger gave their faces a sunken look

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.

Sunken \Sunk"en\, a.
Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Six men survived 40 hours in the Pacific Ocean by fashioning a makeshift raft out of buoys and nets from their sunken fishing boat, the Coast Guard said.
Eisenberg discovered that the purser would not dirty his hands dealing directly with a hold full of Chinese seaman who had been rescued from a sunken vessel, so he became a go-between trading cigarettes and spirits.
Eight water samples collected near the sunken vessel, 5,000 feet beneath the ocean surface, detected no radiation leakage, said Norway's National Institute of Radiation Protection.
Along the edge of the 125 year old waterway, young conscripts watch idly in the sun as the tankers are piloted past. The days are long gone when the far bank bristled with Israeli armaments and the canal was blocked by sunken ships.
So far a sunken bamboo garden and a walk-through "sound cylinder" with little waterfalls are already in place.
In January, FAIR issued an extensive study proposing construction of sunken concrete walls and secure fences to tighten border security.
In the past, FDIC liquidators have come across such failed-bank assets as a sunken tugboat, a goat dairy farm, an X-rated movie and a thoroughbred stud with a venereal disease.
His organization proposed, instead, 12-foot sunken concrete retaining walls topped by 8-foot metal fences along the San Diego and El Paso border segments.
The Park Service decided the sunken ferry had become a navigational hazard.
Salvage workers on Friday sawed in two the wreck of a sunken tanker loaded with a deadly chemical as a preliminary to raising the hulk, Dutch television reported.
A 20-mile stretch of the river remained closed to traffic because of the sunken barges.
Survivors might never have been found had not a plane on an anti-submarine patrol spotted an oil streak left by the sunken ship.
Norwegian scientists were gathering deep-water samples Sunday, and they placed equipment near the sunken ship that would monitor radiation levels for years.
Three-quarters of the platform collapsed into the sea, and two sunken accommodation sections containing dozens of bodies were later recovered by cranes.
In 1986, the world got its first look at the sunken remains of the Titanic, as videotapes of the British luxury liner were released by researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Acuna's face was gaunt, his cheeks sunken and his hair, which had begun to fall out, had been shaved off. His weight was down from 180 to about 105.
Baghdad also wants the Shatt al-Arab waterway, its only outlet to the gulf, cleared of sunken ships and silt.
Last January, Eastport International Inc., a small defense contractor in Upper Marlboro, Md., was using an undersea robot to seek a sunken ship in the Indian Ocean.
Between two bedrooms, at the end of a marble, mirrored hallway, is a fountain and a sunken bathtub, with a painting of Liberace on the ceiling.
The barrel-vaulted entrance leading to a small sunken patio is elegant, modest and inviting.
Coast Guard officials estimated 48,000 gallons of oil leaked from the listing barge, meaning most of the oil leaked from the nearly sunken vessel.
Argo and his master, expedition leader Dr. Robert Ballard, also discovered the sunken Titanic four years ago.
He took time to hold a news conference in what used to be a sunken living room.
U.S. Coast Guard officials halted traffic on the Allegheny River because a sunken scrap barge threatened craft on the surface today.
They include the Glomar Explorer, the CIA ship built to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine.
When the Geneva talks halted, Iraq demanded that the next step must be that the Shatt-al-Arab waterway dividing the two nations be cleared of sunken ships and silt so it is navigable again.
The waterway is Iraq's only navigable outlet to the Persian Gulf, but it has been clogged with sunken ships and silt since the war broke out in 1980.
Divers have found a sunken airplane and a body believed to be that of a man prosecutors suspected of faking his death to avoid a theft indictment and collect $4 million in insurance money, authorities said.
Italian authorities were inspecting the hull of the sunken Haven, which exploded last Thursday, killing at least three crewmen.
Downtown Monticello remains under 50 to 60 feet of water, but outlying areas are being revealed as the lake dries up - a foundation here, an old swimming pool there along with sunken boats, motors, fishing poles and tennis shoes.

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