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読み方 しずむ

自動詞

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（＝水に沈む）to sink; to go down; to go to the bottom; to settle

用例

• 水中に沈む
  to sink in the water

• 水より重いものは沈む
  Anything that is heavier than water, sinks in it.
• 石は沈む
  A stone sinks in the water.
• 石のように沈む
  He will sink like lead.
• 深く沈む
  to sink deep
• 船が暗礁に乗り上げて沈んだ
  The ship ran on a rock and went down.
• 海底深く沈んだ
  She went to the bottom.
• 船が沈んでいる
  She is at the bottom （of the sea）.
• 品川沖に船が一艘沈んでいる
  There is a ship at the bottom off Shinagawa.
• 沈んだ船
  a sunken ship
  a submerged vessel
• 沈んだ船が浮き上がる
  A sunken ship floats off.
• 船が今にも沈みそうだ
  The ship is ready to sink.
• 船が沈み始める
  A ship settles.
• 船が沈みかけた
  The ship settled in the water.
• 船は見る見る沈む
  The ship is fast settling.
• 彼は水中に沈んで再び浮かず
  He sank beneath the waves, never to rise again.
• 彼はたちまち沈んで見えなくなった
  He soon sank out of sight.
• 子どもを打っちゃっておけば浮く者は浮く沈むものは沈む
  Leave a boy to sink or swim.

〈以下特例〉

• 五分間ばかり沈んでおった
  I was under water about five minutes.

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用例

• 気が沈む
  to have a heavy heart―be heavy-hearted―be depressed in spirits―be in low spirits―be in the dumps―be in the blues―have a fit of the blues―be grave―be pensive―be melancholy

• 身体が悪いと気が沈む
  Ill health depresses me.
• 今日はたいそう沈んでいるじゃないか
  You seem to be in low spirits today.
• 今日は気の沈む日だ
  I am in the blues today
  I have a fit of the blues today
  The weather is depressing.
• 彼は浮くかと思うと沈み、沈むかと思うと浮く（変転自在だ）
  He will pass from gay to grave, from grave to gay.
• 彼は物思いに沈んでいる
  He is lost in thoughts―in a pensive mood.
• 一家は憂いに沈んでいる
  The family are plunged in grief.
• 彼女は沈みがちの性だ
  She is of a pensive disposition―of a melancholy temperament.