sink是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 洗涤槽，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall sink lower, and be worse.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then you will speak well and wisely, little Tukey; and when at last you sink into your grave, you shall sleep as qui-etly ' 'As if I lay in Soroe,' said Tuk, awaking.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned over his stout, well-cared- for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
-- Now by the abolition of serfdom we have been deprived of our authority; and so our husbandry, where it had been raised to a high level, is bound to sink to the most savage primitive condition.
-- Letting his head sink into his hands, he sat for a long while in that position, several times attempted to speak and stopped short.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once Clif produced the masterpiece of throwing a brick into the sink beside the platform, just when Dr. Robertshaw was working up to his annual climax about the effects of brass bands on the intensity of the knee-jerk.
-- Without disturbing his routine work, he found himself able to sink blissfully into the laboratory.
-- II Five rapt minutes Martin spent in the laboratory which was to be his--smallish but efficient, the bench exactly the right height, a proper sink with pedal taps.
-- As she turned out the light and lay tense, unable to give herself over to sleep, unable to sink into security, while to her blurred eyes the half-seen folds of the mosquito netting seemed to slide about her, she tried to remember whether these mosquitoes might be carrying plague germs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb ofdisorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable.
-- He overtook the girl at the seat, but, on reaching it, she dropped down on it, in the corner; she let her head sink on the back of the seat and closed her eyes, ap-parently in extreme exhaustion.
-- 'There are three ways before her,' he thought, 'the canal, the madhouse, or 芒聙娄 at last to sink into depravity which ob-scures the mind and turns the heart to stone.'
-- 'Can that creature who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be consciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?
-- She took both his hands and let her head sink on his shoulder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I rang thebell impatiently, after half a dozen unavailing modest pulls, andshe appeared at last- which was not by any means to be reliedupon- she would appear with a reproachful aspect, sink breathlesson a chair near the door, lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom,and become so ill, that I was glad, at any sacrifice of brandy oranything else, to get rid of her.
-- I'm agoing, first, to stave in that theer boat, and sink it where I wouldhave drowned him, as I'm a livin' soul, if I had had one thought ofwhat was in him!As he sat afore me,' he said, wildly, holding outhis clenched right hand, 'as he sat afore me, face to face, strike medown dead, but I'd have drownded him, and thought it right!I'm agoing to seek my niece.'
-- Iknow, and never can forget, that there was that in her wild mannerwhich gave me no assurance but that she would sink before myeyes, until I had her arm within my grasp.
-- I confess that I began to despair of herrecovery, and gradually to sink deeper and deeper into the beliefthat she was dead.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together; but when it appeared that the Mr. Martin, who bore a part in the narrative, and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good-nature in doing something or other, was a single man; that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case; she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospi-tality and kindness, and that, if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever.
-- When she took in her history, indeed, her situation, as well as her beauty; when she con-sidered what all this elegance was destined to, what she was going to sink from, how she was going to live, it seemed impossible to feel any thing but compassion and respect; es-pecially, if to every well-known particular entitling her to interest, were added the highly probable circumstance of an attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had so naturally start-ed to herself.
-- A Mrs. Elton would be an excuse for any change of intercourse; former intimacy might sink without remark.
-- She is poor; she has sunk from the comforts she was born to; and, if she live to old age, must probably sink more.
-- Her voice was not unsteady; but her mind was in all the perturbation that such a development of self, such a burst of threatening evil, such a confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create. She listened with much inward suffering, but 500 Emmawith great outward patience, to Harriet's detail. Method-ical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit especially with the corroborating circum-stances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the unvarying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.
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