词组 | sink |
释义 | sink Both sank and sunk are used for the past tense of sink. Sank is used more often, but sunk is neither rare nor dialectal as a past tense, though it is usually a past participle. • He sank himself word by word into the literature — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980 • Then I sunk back never again to blaze perhaps — Robert Frost, letter, 8 July 1935 • ... when I saw that program listing my heart sank —Edith Oliver, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 1971 • ... the squall that sunk the Pride of Baltimore —M. Murray, Science News, 2 Aug. 1986 |
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