- 1沉沒的；凹陷的
Sunken describes something that has sunk, gone down under water and stayed there, like a sunken ship resting on the ocean floor. It is also used more generally for anything set lower than what is around it: a 'sunken garden' is built lower than the ground around it, and 'sunken eyes' or 'sunken cheeks' describe a face where the eyes or cheeks look pressed in and hollow, often from illness, hunger, or old age.
From the word’s history
Old past participle of sink, from Old English sincan.
sink「下沉」的舊過去分詞，源自古英文 sincan。
組成sunk (past participle of sink) + -en, an old adjective-making ending also seen in broken and shaken. Sunken is really an older form of sunk, now kept mainly as an adjective placed right before a noun.
同家族的字
- sunkthe same past participle of sink, used after has, have, or is, as in 'the ship has sunk', versus 'the sunken ship'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
sunkenadj/ˈsʌŋkən/
- 1
Caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged
- The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet
- sunken mountain ranges I took for islands
- 2
Seeming to have fallen deeper back into the face due to tiredness, illness, or old age.
- She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.
- The heartbreak will take some getting over; the sunken forms of the players at the full-time whistle said as much.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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