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to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy
HSK 4
heavy / hard / serious / critical
HSK 4
taciturn / uncommunicative / silent
HSK 4
to contemplate / to ponder / contemplation / meditation
HSK 7-9
to soak / to permeate / to immerse
HSK 7-9
(chemistry) to settle; to precipitate / (chemistry) sediment; precipitate / (fig.) to accumulate
HSK 7-9
to be engrossed / to be absorbed with / to lose oneself in / to be addicted to
HSK 7-9
steady / calm / unflustered
HSK 7-9
steady / calm and collected / not nervous
HSK 7-9
oppressive (of weather) / heavy / depressed / not happy / (of sound) dull / muffled
HSK 7-9
heavy
HSK 7-9
to sink into despondency / (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet
HSK 7-9
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats
melancholy; gloomy
Chinese eaglewood; agarwood tree; lignum aloes (Aquilaria agallocha)
gloomy
to indulge in / to wallow / absorbed in / deeply engrossed / addicted
to be fast asleep / (fig.) to lie dormant; to lie undiscovered
(of weather) overcast; gloomy / (of a voice) low and deep / low-spirited; downcast
to sink
dark (weather, mood)
to mutter to oneself irresolutely
sediment / deposit / sedimentation (geology)
deep / profound / (of a person) reserved / undemonstrative / (of a voice, sound etc) deep / low-pitched
peaceful / quiet / calm / gentle
deeply / heavily
to sink into (vice, depravity etc) / to pass into oblivion / downfall; passing
to become intoxicated
shipwreck / sunken boat / sinking ship
to lose one's cool / to get impatient / unable to remain calm
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
to stay calm / to keep one's composure
to attack and sink (a ship)
silence / stillness
sediment
to keep cool; to stay calm
ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge
chronic illness; (fig.) deep-rooted problem; longstanding issue
sedimentation (geology)
silence is golden (idiom)
lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom) / fig. the best is saved for last
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts
pitch-dark
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
unhurried / deliberate
grief / remorse / deep in sorrow / bitter (anguish) / profound (condolences)
murky / dazed / befuddled / dizzy
lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes
sedimentary rock (geology)
to scuttle (a ship)
to sink down
to soak / to steep
(idiom) dizzy
lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response
deep and profound
to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside / (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc)
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
to sink / to fall
caisson / sink box
chronic illness / fig. deeply entrenched problem
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom) / fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat
to subside / to cave in / subsidence
lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom) / fig. to have had no news (of sb who went away); to have lost contact
deeply immersed / fig. wallowing in / deeply engrossed in
to lurk under water / to immerse oneself in (study etc) / to lie low; to keep a low profile / quiet; reserved; self-possessed
without news from sb (idiom)
immersive
precipitate; sediment
stagnant / congealed / fig. grave in manner / low (of voice)
to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)
open caisson
deep growling thunder
to capsize and sink
to hit hard
to remain calm in the face of adversity (idiom)
the Chinese market, excluding first- and second-tier cities
to play the profound thinker
to have one's ups and downs
sunk cost (economics)
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher
sedimentary belt (geology)
a shipwreck / a sinking
oceanic sediment (geology)
clastic sediment
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
to scuttle (a ship) / to drown oneself
hemochromatosis
(of the sun) to set


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