sinking

1 It was Zeke the woman bit, sinking her teeth deep into his throat.

2 We were on a ship that was sinking, huddled at the tip before it went under.

3 And so because he was who he was—his mother’s son, tidy by nature, survivor of the sinking of the U.S.

4 “However, I have a sinking feeling that at least one of you doesn’t really need a scholarship from me anymore.”

5 “Sam Hamilton is sinking four wells—if he didn’t get fired too.”

6 He quested down along the rim of the door, sinking deeper, reading its outline.

7 My baby face is sinking down to the past and a new face is coming to the surface, with my grandmother’s slightly turned-up nose and my father’s deep-set eyes and my mother’s coffee-with-milk-color skin.

8 How black was his despair when he felt himself sinking again!

当他感到自己再次下沉时，他感到多么绝望，多么黑暗啊！

9 The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable — and necessary.

对于威廉·古斯塔夫号沉没的长时间沉默可能是不可避免的，也是必要的。

10 Then she slides down against the wall, sinking onto the kitchen floor into the spilled milk.

11 "I don't know," she said, sinking down in her seat.

12 Second, the slow—but steadily increasing—tilt of the moving land made him realize that half of it was actually sinking into the ground.

13 The broken stones of temples and palaces were sinking back into the earth, and gnarled old willows grew thick along the riverbanks.

14 “I’m sinking here, Starr. I just knew it was you. And it was, wasn’t it?”

15 For my old professor, it was not the talk of being sick but the being sick itself that was sinking him.

16 And the horrible sinking feeling that I am being taken away.

17 Blind, his nose full of river, choking, sinking, he kicked and twisted and fought to pry the clutching fingers off his arm, but the stone fingers were unyielding.

18 He watched with a sinking heart as the mean-looking boy swaggered up and down in front of the mounds of dirt.

19 Charcoal smoke drifted over them, sinking into their clothes and hair.

20 Cudgeon felt a momentary pang of guilt, which he dispelled with his favorite daydream—a vision of himself sinking into a beige-velour Council seat.

1 凹陷处

pit

2 凹处

well dish valley pocket fold pit socket recession recess concavity cell nucleus

3 投资

investitive investment capitalization invest place

4 虚脱

collapse prostration

5 沉降

setting precipitation fallout subsidence settling subside

6 挖掘

excavation digging dig delve sink burrow excavate

7 沉下

hypostatic hypostatical subsidence swag

8 没落

lumpen downfallen labefaction fall decline ruin breakdown downfall downcast ruination dwine sink go to the bad reduced ruined ruinous reduction descent falling comedown falling-off ebb go to pot

9 衰弱

debile donsie broken delicate gone wasted helpless infirm bedridden seely doddery doddered astheny labefaction hyposthenia waste weakness breakdown relaxation decay breakup wilt attenuation fading declination prostration debility asthenia decrepitude marasmus lose wear sink collapse fade lag faint ebb falter droop languor crock distress wreck wither prostrate debilitate emaciate enfeeble extenuate unstring depauperate come apart at the seams bring low shaky worn-out withered effete enervated adynamic down tabefaction decline impotence infirmity fail pine languish bate reduce sap depress enervate etiolate devitalize

10 衰颓

western contabescence

11 衰颓的

western

12 试掘

prospect

13 孔

oscular eye hole opening mouth punch vent socket bore aperture scab orifice vulva ostium

14 沉没

sunken sunk down subsidence settle founder sink swamp lose scupper whelm go to the bottom scuttle submersion submergence drown submerge

15 塌下

collapse

16 下沉

down settlement dip sag gravitation subsidence cave-in sinkage set sound settle sink subside gravitate preponderate

17 凹下

dip give dent

18 没有精神

die-away poky

19 意志消沉

dead-alive flat damp funky rhino melancholy heartsick heartsore mopish amort depression collapse wilt tailspin hypochondria slump oppress one's heart sinks be a cup too low have heart in boots