subsidence [səbˈsaɪdns]

例句:

• A surveyor said that the problems were caused by subsidence and the house needed to be underpinned.
  一名勘测员说是地面下陷导致了这些问题出现，房子需要加固地基。
  
• In more than 30 years of surveying he has never yet known a building to collapse because of subsidence.
  他做房屋评估工作都30多年了，还从未听说过哪一座房子由于地基下陷而倒塌的。
  
• Now every sound ceased suddenly with the subsidence of Mr. Walter's voice.
  随着华尔特先生的声音平息下来的时候,一切声音都突然停止了.
  
• Coal seams worked near the surface cause the severest subsidence.
  来自Which?
• Subsidence happens because removing fluids from interstices allows compaction thus settling.
  来自SA
• People living above tunnels will receive a life-time guarantee against subsidence.
  来自THETIMES