sink in

下陷; 被吸收，被了解; 陷落

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.(我身陷泥潭中，找不到立足点。)

"It just didn't sink in at the time," Zidane said recently. "at the final whistle I said to myself 'Wow." World champion?(“当时还有点懵，”齐达内最近说道，“终场哨声响起，我对自己说，‘喔，这就世界冠军了？”’)

He paused to let the irony of this sink in.(他停顿一下，以便让大家领会其中的讽刺意味。)

As this realisation began to sink in, my surface fears began to fade away by themselves.(随着对这个认识地不断加深，我的那些表面上的恐惧就都自己消失了。)

It felt like a miracle at first, until the reality of what had happened began to 20 sink in.(一开始，感觉就像出现了奇迹一般，后来这一切在现实中对我造成的影响渐渐显现。)

The implication took a while to sink in.(这个含意过了一会儿才被领会。)

And if we stop moving forward, we sink in the water, like sharks.(像鲨鱼一样，假如有一天没力气向前冲了，我们就会沉入水中。)

Wood does not sink in water; it floats.(木头在水中不沉，而是漂在水面。)

I soak my bras in the sink in a gentle liquid designed for hand washing or Ivory Snow.(我把文胸完全浸泡在温和的手洗用洗涤液或IvorySnow中。)

The full scale of the disaster has yet to sink in.(人们还没有完全意识到这场灾难的严重程度。)

verb

1. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

e.g. It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
she was penetrated with sorrow

Synonym: clickget throughdawncome homeget acrosspenetratefall into place

2. pass through

e.g. Water permeates sand easily

Synonym: percolatepermeatefilter

1. 终于被充分理解;终于被完全领悟
When a statement or fact sinks in, you finally understand or realize it fully.

e.g. The implication took a while to sink in.
其中的含意要花点时间才能完全领会。