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Something slips down below a surface and keeps going down — a stone dropping through water, settling lower and lower. Nearly all of sink is this one downward motion: going down, dropping to a lower level, or pushing something down into a surface — used for ships, voices, prices, moods, and even a hole dug into the ground.

可以想成一個東西滑到水面以下、還繼續往下掉——像一顆石頭沉進水裡，越陷越低。sink 幾乎都是這一個「往下」的動作：…更多收起可以想成一個東西滑到水面以下、還繼續往下掉——像一顆石頭沉進水裡，越陷越低。sink 幾乎都是這一個「往下」的動作：沉下去、降到更低、或把某物壓進某個表面。船會 sink、聲音會 sink、價格會 sink、心情也會 sink，連往地裡打一口井都是把東西「往下沉進去」。

原始詞典資料34 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Sinkname

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    A surname.

sinkverb/ˈsɪŋk/

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    headingTo move or be moved into something.

    • A stone sinks in water.  The sun gradually sank in the west.
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    headingTo move or be moved into something.

    • An iceberg sank the Titanic.  British battleships sank the Bismarck.
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    headingTo move or be moved into something.

    • Before installing the new surfacing material, sink any protruding nails.
    • I have to take the turn, sink hooks and nails so I'll return And it could get me every time, but I must taste fire Infectious is the flame that burns
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    headingTo move or be moved into something.

    • to sink a well in the ground
    • As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the staging was driven on June 18, 1894.
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    ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo move or be moved into something.

    • My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
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    headingTo diminish or be diminished.

    • But open converse is there none, ⁠So much the vital spirits sink ⁠To see the vacant chair, and think, ‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’
    • I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.
  • 7

    headingTo diminish or be diminished.

    • to sink one's reputation
    • And if I have a conscience, let it sink me
  • 8

    headingTo diminish or be diminished.

    • Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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    archaicslangTo conceal and appropriate.

    • If you are sent with ready money to buy anything at a shop, and happen at that time to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on your master's account.
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    archaicslangTo keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

    • I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]
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    slangTo drink (especially something alcoholic).

    • So let's sink another drink / 'Cause it'll give me time to think
    • […] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.
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    slangTo pay absolutely.

    • I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.
    • for 13 of his 15 years in charge, Burrell sank more money into the farm than he received in revenues, and the estate was £1.5m overdrawn.
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    archaicslangTo reduce or extinguish by payment.

    • to sink the national debt
  • 14

    To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

    • I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
    • then keep an even steady Fire under them, not too fierce at first, lest you scorch them; and let not the Fire sink or slacken, but rather increase till the Hops be near dry'd
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    archaicTo die.

    • However, before the entire mass was detached, a copious oozing of blood took place, when the patient lost from a pint to a pint and a half; and which, doubtless, so lowered him that he never rallied, but sank in about an hour and a half after the operation was completed.
    • […] as September drew towards its close, and reports came from Munich that Gömbös was sinking fast, the Right in their turn were credited by the Prager Presse and by certain foreign journalists, who drew their inspiration from the same sources, with sensational designs.
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    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: / Through wind and waves, and storms he works his way
    • It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

sinknoun/ˈsɪŋk/

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    A basin used for holding water for washing.

    • Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.
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    A drain for carrying off wastewater.

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    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA sinkhole.

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    A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.

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    A heat sink.

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    A place that absorbs resources or energy.

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    biologyecologynatural-sciencesA habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.

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    Descending motion; descent.

    • An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
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    ball-gamesbaseballgamesDescending motion; descent.

    • Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsAn object or callback that captures events.

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    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA destination vertex in a transportation network.

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    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.

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    An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

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    A depression in a stereotype plate.

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    entertainmentlifestyletheaterA stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.

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    businessminingAn excavation smaller than a shaft.

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    One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。