sink in

下陷; 被吸收，被了解; 陷落

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。

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。)