n. 钻进, 跳进, 跳水, 跳水池, 猛跌, 落下, 投入, 开始从事, 盲目投资

vi. 投入, 投身于, 跳进, 陷入, 下降

vt. 使投入, 使插入, 使陷入, 使遭受

[经] 下跌

Plunge \Plunge\, v. i.
1. To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to
submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he
plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to
plunge into debt.

Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. --Dryden.

To plunge into guilt of a murther. --Tillotson.

2. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently
forward, as a horse does.

Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.
--Bp. Hall.

3. To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or
other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in
hazardous speculations. [Cant]

{Plunging fire} (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an
elevated position.


Plunge \Plunge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plunged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plunging}.] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr.
(assumed) LL. plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See {Plumb}.]
1. To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter
quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body
into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. ``To plunge
the boy in pleasing sleep.'' --Dryden.

Bound and plunged him into a cell. --Tennyson.

We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. --I.
Watts.

2. To baptize by immersion.

3. To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.]

Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.
--Sir T.
Browne.


Plunge \Plunge\, n.
1. The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the
water with a plunge.

2. Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being
submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. [R.]

She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her
husband's murder or accuse her son. --Sir P.
Sidney.

And with thou not reach out a friendly arm,
To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?
--Addison.

3. The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or
violently forward, like an unruly horse.

4. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous
speculation. [Cant]

{Plunge bath}, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath
in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.

{Plunge battery}, or {plunging battery} (Elec.), a voltaic
battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into,
or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.