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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- Great clouds filled the sky still; the ground was strewn with broken branches; the marly soil, soaked by the torrents of rain, had yielded still more; the approaches to the wagon became difficult, but it could not sink any deeper.
-- Should this lack of food and water continue till evening, they would all sink on the road, never to rise again.
-- Poor Mary Grant felt her heart sink within her, and John Mangles stood by ready to die in her behalf.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.
-- The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he leant over and began to sink slowly into Colia's arms.
-- 'Oh, Lebedeff, Lebedeff!Can a man really sink to such depths of meanness?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The uproar which had so lately echoed through the vaults of the forest was gone, leaving the rush of the waters to swell and sink on the currents of the air, in the unmingled sweetness of nature.
-- He may find his six feet of earth when God chooses, and keep it in peace, perhaps, if he has a friend who will take the pains to sink his head so low that the plowshares cannot reach it!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight.
-- His heart began to sink within him; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not ut-ter a stave.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would grow old insensibly; they would see their son and daughter come to years of reason, marry in due course the one a pretty girl, future mother of healthy children; the other a handsome, manly fellow, obviously a soldier; and at last, prosperous in their dignified retirement, beloved by their descendants, after a happy, not unuseful life, in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave.
-- He had a sudden vision of her standing in the kitchen it was hardly larger than a cupboard washing the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away, giving the sink a scrub, and hanging the dish-cloth up to dry it was there still, a gray torn rag; then looking round to see that everything was clean and nice.
-- When the mail-boat, stopping for twenty-four hours on its way from Wellington to San Francisco, blew the whistle that warned the passengers to get on board, Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The river became strong almost directly between the two walls of granite, which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off.
-- The sailor also feared every instant that it would get loose and sink to the bottom of the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, pray do not sink your real character in paying unmeaning compliments to me.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he began to sink quickly.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So it was with the Cassandra, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old Walrus, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold."
-- At every jump too, Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the farther out, and the whole body canting towards the stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I chose to separate myself from you, I should have no interest in seeing you again; I could place you upon the deck of this vessel which has served you as a refuge, I could sink beneath the waters, and forget that you had ever existed.
-- When I wanted to find out the necessary increase of weight required to sink the Nautilus, I had only to calculate the reduction of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth."
-- If we want to sink 3,000 feet, I should keep account of the reduction of bulk under a pressure equal to that of a column of water of a thousand feet.
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