海沉
1.She is older than the rocks among which she sits, like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a driver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchhants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.
2.[bbe] You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.
3.About 15 minutes after we got in the water, we watched the tug sink.
4.The Carboniferous of Lower Yangtze Basin is divided into 3 evolution stages of depression,upwelling and extensional sinking ,corresponding to sequences A- B,C and D- F,respectively.
5.The city is sinking into the sea, its historic buildings are falling to pieces, and the famous lagoon is badly polluted.
6.At the end of 1998, Hong Kong had 1 865 kilometres of roads and 1737 highway structures, three immersed-tube, cross-harbour tunnels, and eight road tunnels penetrating the hills of the territory.
7.If it became customary to sojourn long in places where the air does not naturally penetrate, as in diving-bells sunk in the sea, a supply of air artificially furnished would, like water conveyed into houses, bear a price: and if from any revolution in nature the atmosphere became too scanty for the consumption, or could be monopolized, air might acquire a very high marketable value.

