Meaning of TO SINK IN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say it takes something
a while "to sink in" it means that it takes
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us a little bit of time to understand it.
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So "to sink in" means almost the same thing
as "to understand".
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So let's say someone comes to talk to you
and they give you some bad news and you don't
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want to believe it right away.
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It might take a while for that bad news to
sink in.
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It might take a while for you to understand
the bad news that the person is telling you.
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Because sometimes when you get bad news you,
you don't want to believe it right away.
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So for something to "sink in" sometimes takes
a little while.
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Sometimes it takes a little while to understand
something.
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