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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom, that lady assumed an unnatural fortitude of manner which I supposed to be expressive of an intention to drop and choke when out of view, and kissing her hand to Miss Havisham, was escorted forth.
-- Mr. Pip, there are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about that watch; there's not a man, a woman, or a child, among them, who wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if it was red hot, if inveigled into touching it."
-- "But I am not a fortune-teller," he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can find a cure for this,' thought he; 'now I will milk my cow and quench my thirst': so he tied her to the stump of a tree, and held his leathern cap to milk into; but not a drop was to be had.
-- I should like a drop of sweet red christening wine 66 Grimms' Fairy Talesmyself.'
-- So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.
-- 'Here, on the stairs, I am sweeping,' answered the first drop of blood.
-- 'Here in the kitchen, I am warming myself,' cried the second drop of blood.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.
-- One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising him-self upon the frame of her majesty's chair, he took me up by the middle, as I was sitting down, not thinking any harm, and let me drop into a large silver bowl of cream, and then ran away as fast as he could.
-- The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men; which the monkey observing, and finding himself al-most encompassed, not being able to make speed enough 150 Gulliver's Travelswith his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, and made his escape.
-- Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which by reason of many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.
-- But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise insurrections, he proceeds to the last remedy, by letting the island drop directly upon their heads, which makes a universal destruction both of houses and men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To thpeak plain to you, my opinion ith that you had better cut it thort, and drop it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tomorrow, among us three, there will not be a drop of water.
-- "Yes, my poor boy, I knew that when you reached this place, this crossroad in the earth, you would fall down half dead, and I saved my last drop of water in order to restore you."
-- He had neither quenched his own thirst, nor brought us one drop in his gourd.
-- The rays of electric light mix with this dazzling sheaf, every drop as it falls assuming the prismatic colors of the rainbow.
-- The atmosphere is being gradually loaded with vapors, which carry with them the electricity formed by the constant evaporation of the saline waters; the clouds are slowly but sensibly falling towards the sea, and are assuming a dark-olive texture; the electric rays can scarcely pierce through the opaque curtain which has fallen like a drop scene before this wondrous theater, on the stage of which another and terrible drama is soon to be enacted.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart melted suddenly, like a drop of fire, and he put out his hand and laid his lingers on her knee.
-- She went to the door and threw the drop of water down the path.
-- John Thomas, an' th' cunt O' lady Jane! ' 'Oh, don't tease him,' said Connie, crawling on her knees on the bed towards him and putting her arms round his white slender loins, and drawing him to her so that her hanging, swinging breasts touched the tip of the stirring, erect phallos, and caught the drop of moisture.
-- Bit by bit, let's drop the whole industrial life an' go back.
-- He watched the beautiful curving drop of her haunch-es.
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