词汇精选：sink的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
水槽，洗涤槽；污水坑
例句：
The sink overflowed and the kitchen floor was awash.
洗涤槽的水溢出来了，厨房里满地都是水。
例句：
Tip the dirty water out of the bowl and into the sink.
把盆里的脏水倒入洗涤槽里。
v.
（使）下沉 [I,T]
例句：
He beheld the boat sink.
他注视着那条船下沉。
例句：
A small leak will sink a great ship.
小漏不补沉大船。
渐渐进入；淹没 [I]
例句：
Don't let yourself sink into despair.
别让自己陷入绝望的境地。
例句：
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
在罪恶中漂浮者终将在悲哀中沉没。
使低落；消沉 [I,T]
例句：
How could he sink to such depths?
他怎么会消沉到这种地步呢?
例句：
These questions will sink you instead of help to lift you up.
这些问题不会让你振作，只会让你消沉下去。
渗透 [I]
例句：
Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me.
音乐从未如此渗透我的心灵。
例句：
It might sink slowly through the soil into the natural holding areas in the rock.
也许它会通过土地慢慢渗透到岩层里的天然蓄水区。
挖掘 [T]
例句：
To sink a well and plough the fields.
凿井耕田。
例句：
He paused long enough to allow that to sink in——give Clyde the feeling that he was an interloper indeed.
他停顿了相当时间，好让这句话打进心坎，让克莱德感觉到自己实在是个没有一点能耐的人。
二、词义辨析：
descend,drop,fall,sink
这些动词都表示“落下，下降”之意。descend通常指沿斜线或斜坡下降。 drop指物体从一定高度落下。fall与drop同义，指突然或猛烈地降落，但fall也可指任何下落，同高度或形式无关。sink指在空气或水中垂直下降、下沉。
三、相关短语：
sink in
沉入,渗入;深深感到,充分认识到
heat sink
热沉，热耗，吸热部件，吸热器，散热片吸热，散热器，散热装置
kitchen sink
厨房洗涤池, 激进现实主义【医】 厨房洗涤盆
四、参考例句：
to sink a shaft
挖竖井
He beheld the boat sink.
他注视着那条船下沉。
How could he sink to such depths?
他怎么会消沉到这种地步呢?
There's a backup in the sink.
下水道堵塞。
Let that sink in for a moment.
用心想想。
Wood does not sink in water.
木头在水中不会沉没。
Don't let yourself sink into despair.
别让自己陷入绝望的境地。
The boat was beginning to sink fast.
小船开始快速下沉。
Sally washes the plates in the sink.
萨利在洗涤槽里洗盘子。
The sink overflowed and the kitchen floor was awash.
洗涤槽的水溢出来了，厨房里满地都是水。
