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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His strength then failed him and he let Patroclus' foot drop from his hand, as he fell full length dead upon the body; thus he died far from the fertile land of Larissa, and never repaid his parents the cost of bringing him up, for his life was cut short early by the spear of mighty Ajax.
-- Go then and drop nectar and am-brosia into his breast, that he may know no hunger.'
-- Diomed would have now passed him, or there would have been a dead heat, but Phoebus Apollo to spite him made him drop his whip.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tables and chairs leaping and dancing.. " "Take a drop more, Janny," said Hall.
-- "Just a drop more, Janny," said Hall.
-- "Don't let him drop that parcel."
-- "Don't drop those books, stupid," said the Voice, sharply overtaking him.
-- And just think of the things he might do!Where'd you be, if he took a drop over and above, and had a fancy to go for you?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To-morrow he would drop over the side, and vanish again out of my existence.
-- I was still running with all my might, and I never saw this drop until I was flying headlong through the air.
-- I turned to my three obedient Beast Folk again and signalled them to drop the body they still carried.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
-- He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cun-ningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
-- They may drop him if we follow too close.'
-- 'Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed the scout, whose eyes began to glisten with the ardor of his usu-al occupation; 'if they come within range of a bullet I will drop one, though the whole Six Nations should be lurking within sound!What do you hear, Chingachgook?
-- Uncas, drop the blanket, and show the knaves its dark side.
-- Uncas' he spoke in Delaware 'Uncas, drop down in the canoe, and whirl a brand among the pack; or fear may do what the wolves can't get at to per-form, and leave us without horses in the morning, when we shall have so much need to journey swiftly!'
-- returned the low, soft voice of the youthful chieftain; 'the Hurons float with the slimy eels!They drop from the oaks like fruit that is ready to be eaten!and the Delawares laugh!'
-- 'Ah!had I that piece which furnished the name you use, I would obligate myself to cut the thong, and drop the gourd without breaking it!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, in the enthusiasm of my youth, I remarked on this to Rose Waterford, she said:"Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it.
-- With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.
-- "I'll tell him to drop us in the Place Pigalle."
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