Subside
[səb'saɪd]
解释:
(verb.) wear off or die down; 'The pain subsided'.
(verb.) sink down or precipitate; 'the mud subsides when the waters become calm'.
(verb.) sink to a lower level or form a depression; 'the valleys subside'.
校对:潘西--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
(v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
(v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.
黛朵录入
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Sink, settle.[2]. Decrease, diminish, lessen, lull, wane, ebb, abate, intermit, grow less.
编辑:兰德尔
解释:
v.i. to settle down: to settle at the bottom: to fall into a state of quiet: to sink to a lower level: (coll.) to cease talking to take a less prominent place.—ns. Subsī′dence (also Sub′sidence) Subsī′dency act or process of subsiding settling or sinking.
海尔格校对
例句:
- Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Their affection was always to subside into friendship. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Her objections to Mr. Knightley's marrying did not in the least subside. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Dorothea sat down and subsided into calm silence, feeling happier than she had done for a long while before. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Fagin nodded to him to take no further notice just then; and, in a few minutes, the girl subsided into her accustomed demeanour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Besides all this there was quite a peace feeling, for the time being, among the citizens of that part of Mississippi, but this feeling soon subsided. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Quietly, quietly, the face subsided into a far younger likeness of her own than she had ever seen under the grey hair, and sank to rest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The excitement had hardly subsided when Hannah appeared, with Mrs. March's compliments, and would the ladies walk down to supper. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- At last the agony subsided of itself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It is no blame to them that after marriage this Sehnsucht nach der Liebe subsides. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Unless my face, when I am dead, subsides into the long departed look--they say such things happen, I don't know--my children will have never seen me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Stephen, subsiding into his quiet manner, and never wandering in his attention, gave a nod. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Arthur, fast subsiding into despair, had opened it, when a knock was heard at the outer door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I got, in reply, quite a little romantic narrative, told not unimpressively, with the accompaniment of the now subsiding storm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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