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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I led him up the dark stairs, to prevent his knocking his headagainst anything, and really his damp cold hand felt so like a frogin mine, that I was tempted to drop it and run away.
-- 'If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, whichis now "commended" (in the language of an immortal Writer) tothe lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that afriendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum of L23, 4s./2d.
-- she added, slowly and sternly, opening the other doorto go away, 'I am resolved, for reasons that I have and hatreds thatI entertain, to cast you out, unless you withdraw from my reachaltogether, or drop your pretty mask.
-- and drop me a line where to forward it.
-- She'll drop down the river with that theer tide.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My dear Jane, are you sure you did not wet your feet? It was but a drop or two, but I am so afraid: but Mr. Frank Churchill was so extremely and there was a mat to step upon I shall never forget his ex-treme politeness. Oh!Mr.
-- She would not stir a step, nor drop a hint.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We could knock in a bit and a drop a good deal freer, Miss, if so be ye'd send it to Warren's Malthouse," replied the spokesman.
-- Every drop of moisture not in the men's bottles and flagons in the form of cider was raining as perspiration from their foreheads and cheeks.
-- Not a drop of rain had fallen as yet.
-- A huge drop of rain smote his face, the wind snarled round every corner, the trees rocked to the bases of their trunks, and the twigs clashed in strife.
-- There was no perceptible motion in the air, not a visible drop of water fell upon a leaf of the beeches, birches, and firs composing the wood on either side.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.
-- "Well," he went on, "when folk of that kind get a notion into their heads, they cannot drop it.
-- Men and women for you must be nothing more than post-horses; take a fresh relay, and leave the last to drop by the roadside; in this way you will reach the goal of your ambition.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was shiningblack, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her threedaughters, the terror of the other house servants.
-- And don't be forgetting that you are half Irish, Miss!Andto anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
-- They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely aweek went by without its barbecue or ball.
-- She knew how to smile so that her dimples leaped, how to walk pigeon-toed so that her wide hoop skirts swayedentrancingly, how to look up into a man's face and then drop her eyes and bat the lids rapidly so that she seemed a-tremble with gentle emotion.
-- When she saw his eyes falter and drop before the long, troubled gaze of his father, a faint worry and bewilderment rosein her as to what was hidden in Ashley's heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.
-- I don't deny that she do throw us back-falls, and that she do drop down upon us heavy.
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