drop是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 滴； 落下； 微量v. 落下； 下降； 失落，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'
-- 'Don't drop that oil upon the blankets, now.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Drop it then,' said Mr. Cruncher; 'I won't have none of YOUR no harms.
-- Drop it altogether.'
-- The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop.
-- As a whirlpool of boiling waters has a centre point, so, all this raging circled round Defarge's wine-shop, and every human drop in the caldron had a tendency to be sucked to-wards the vortex where Defarge himself, already begrimed with gunpowder and sweat, issued orders, issued arms, thrust this man back, dragged this man forward, disarmed one to arm another, laboured and strove in the thickest of the uproar.
-- There must be something short-sighted in the eternal ar-rangements, surely!Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its pur-chase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenome-non so low and unaccountable.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, drop that!Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused.
-- It's a confession that weighs on me; I want to make it to you," said Anna, letting herself drop definitely into an armchair, and looking straight into Dolly's face.
-- She had to let herself drop down to the reality to enjoy him as he really was.
-- The next rows were easier, but still Levin had to strain every nerve not to drop behind the peasants.
-- Sviazhsky was sitting sideways, with one elbow on the table, and a cup in one hand, while with the other hand he gathered up his beard, held it to his nose and let it drop again, as though he were smelling it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue; these were striped with ochre, and covered with cuts whence their blood issued drop by drop stupid fanatics, who, in the great Indian ceremonies, still throw themselves under the wheels of Juggernaut.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately the Reverend Ira Hinkley, who sat between Martin and Angus Duer, had seen Clif drop the pancreas.
-- They made their own breakfasts; they dined on hash at the Pilgrim Lunch Wagon or the Dew Drop Inn.
-- But even this drop of wholesome optimism was lacking in his final doubts.
-- During Clean-up Week, Pickerbaugh spread abroad a new lyric of his own composition: Germs come by stealth And ruin health, So listen, pard, Just drop a card To some man who'll clean up your yard And that will hit the old germs hard.
-- If the elder Pickerbaughs were there-- Martin could hear himself saying, "Thought I'd just drop by, Doctor, and ask you what you thought about--" Hang it!Thought about what?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was restless; he ruffled 20 Crime and Punishmentup his hair and from time to time let his head drop into his hands dejectedly resting his ragged elbows on the stained and sticky table.
-- We have even ventured already to drop a few words on the subject to Pyotr Petrovitch.
-- He was of course incapable of reflecting that it might perhaps be far better not to re-store the axe at all, but to drop it later on in somebody's yard.
-- In the street the heat was insufferable again; not a drop of rain had fallen all those days.
-- 'Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven.
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