to sink into · to get caught up in · to land in (a predicament)

陷入

xiàn rù

x+iàn·4th toner+ù·4th tone

WordHSK 6

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He deliberately exposed her to danger.

他故意令她陷入险境。

You're getting into deep water.

你在陷入困境。

We were faced with an unusual situation because of the accident.

那场事故让我们陷入了不寻常的局势。

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

在青春期，我厌倦生活，并持续陷入自杀的边缘。然而，在那期间，对数学知识的渴望，使我抑制住了那些负面情绪。

Now Marina was a romantic; she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.

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to sink into · to get caught up in · to land in (a predicament)

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