英式发音:[səb'saɪd(ə)ns;'sʌbsɪd(ə)ns] or [səb'saɪdns]
美式发音
(n.) Alt. of Subsidency
迪尔德丽手打
双语例句
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.