Dropping
['drɒpɪŋ] or ['drɑpɪŋ]
解释:
(adj.) coming down freely under the influence of gravity; 'the eerie whistle of dropping bombs'; 'falling rain' .
奥布里校对--From WordNet
解释:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drop
(n.) The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.
(n.) That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals.
埃菲编辑
例句:
- He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Talking of mysteries, by-the-bye, says Mr. Franklin, dropping his voice, I have another word to say to you before you go to the stables. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She paused, and went on, dropping her glance from Lily's: He wouldn't stay with her ten minutes if he KNEW---- Knew----? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- A love-child,' returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She made no immediate motion to do so, however, but dropping into a chair looked wearily about her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He did not put it up, however, and she thought that he was dropping off to sleep. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- In 1868, Glasgow and Wood patented a process of dropping the shot through a column of glycerine or oil. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- This is how it stands, he said, dropping down again to business. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In like manner a heavy rain-storm cleaned the tracks from the accumulations due chiefly to the droppings of the horses, which otherwise served largely to increase the conductivity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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