Subside

(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

• 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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