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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What Troy did was to sink upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robin, gently kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will sink back among the cushions of your armchair, and say to yourself, "Perhaps this may amuse me."
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The surface is very uneven, ris-ing like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
-- His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in plea-sure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
-- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debil-ity might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
-- More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest?
-- Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of an-guish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, in the same moment, I saw the face tilt backward with a white terror on it that I shall never forget, and heard a great cry on board the steamer, and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me.
-- Then, he gently let it sink upon his breast again, with his own hands lying on it.
-- For a day or two, I lay on the sofa, or on the floor,--anywhere, according as I happened to sink down,--with a heavy head and aching limbs, and no purpose, and no power.
-- That I sometimes struggled with real people, in the belief that they were murderers, and that I would all at once comprehend that they meant to do me good, and would then sink exhausted in their arms, and suffer them to lay me down, I also knew at the time.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter 167the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
-- The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the 239workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vi-gour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best an-swer their private advantage.
-- He told me, 'he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat at the window, when the sun began to sink behind the smoke; she sat there, when the smoke was burning red, when the colour faded from it, when darkness seemed to rise slowly out of the ground, and creep upward, upward, up to the house-tops, up the church steeple, up to the summits of the factory chimneys, up to the sky.
-- 'Sir,' returned Stephen, with the quiet confidence of absolute certainty, 'if yo was t' tak a hundred Slackbridges aw as there is, and aw the number ten times towd an' was t' sew 'em up in separate sacks, an' sink 'em in the deepest ocean as were made ere ever dry land coom to be, yo'd leave the muddle just wheer 'tis.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of Elsinore.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Connie was sometimes tempted to say to him: 'For God's sake, don't sink so horribly into the hands of that woman!'
-- No, no, she would give up her hard bright female power; she was weary of it, stiffened with it; she would sink in the new bath of life, in the depths of her womb and her bowels that sang the voiceless song of adoration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jeremiah, the captain deserts the ship, but you and I will sink or float with it.'
-- This second vial appeared to be filled with concentrated provisions and extract of Sink from the pantry.
-- The tiny woman told her No; when that time came, it would sink quietly into her own grave, and would never be found.'
-- Clennam had stopped, not for the first time by many times, to look about him and suffer what he saw to sink into his soul, as the shadows, looked at, seemed to sink deeper and deeper into the water.
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