I began to have a sinking feeling that I was not going to get rid of her.

我开始有一种摆脱不掉她的沮丧情绪。

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She and her husband, who still has work as a machinist, were sinking into debt.

她和仍担任机械师的丈夫，开始陷入债务。

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When she was finally found on the sea floor on March 16 this year - 66 years after the sinking - her life rafts lay among the wreck.

今年3月16日——它沉没66年后，当人们在海底发现它时，船上的球生艇还躺在残骸之中。

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The dollar is plunging, -and the dollar is plunging perhaps maybe just around a little bit -- That's been sinking for some months now-- -because America has been living beyond her means borrowing 2 billion a day from foreign nations.

美元大幅走低，-我插一句，美元确实下跌了一点点,且几个月来持续疲软-,-原因在于美国长久以来一直入不敷出,财政赤字每天增长20亿。

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And there is the poignant allure of "Ophelia, " sinking in her waterlogged gown amid meticulously rendered verdure.

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When Elaine Rothenhaus brought her yellow Labrador Bella to a swimming lesson, the puppy took to the water fearlessly, but her rear side kept sinking.

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"I closed my eyes and prayed and waited to die, " she wrote in "The Sinking, " an account of her survival.

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