Subsidence

(n.) Alt. of Subsidency

迪尔德丽手打

• W erner thought that the earth showed universal strata like the layers of an onion, the mountains being formed by erosion, subsidence, cavings-in. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was on the principle of the gradual subsidence (and elevation) of the bed of the Pacific Ocean that Darwin accounted for the formation of coral reefs. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• During these latter periods there will probably be more variability in the forms of life; during periods of subsidence, more extinction. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• With the subsidence of Esmeralda the lioness renewed her efforts to wriggle her huge bulk through the weakening lattice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

校对:托妮