Drip
[drɪp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway).
(noun.) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; 'the constant sound of dripping irritated him'.
(noun.) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; 'there's a drip through the roof'.
(verb.) fall in drops; 'Water is dripping from the faucet'.
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
(v. i.) To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
(v. t.) To let fall in drops.
(n.) A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
(n.) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
赫尔曼手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Dribble, trickle, fall in drops.[2]. Have drops falling from.
v. a. Let fall in drops.
科妮莉亚手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Drop, ooze, percolate
ANT:Imbibe, swallow, absorb, suck, dry, retain, hold
芭比整理
解釋/意思:
v.i. to fall in drops: to let fall drops.—v.t. to let fall in drops:—pr.p. drip′ping; pa.p. dripped.—n. a falling in drops: that which falls in drops: the edge of a root.—ns. Drip′ping that which falls in drops as fat from meat in roasting; Drip′ping-pan a pan for receiving the dripping from roasting meat; Drip′-stone a projecting moulding over doorways &c. to throw off the rain.—Right of drip right in law to let the drip from one's roof fall on another's land.
手打:托德
例句/造句/用法:
- I heard, through the dead silence, the soft drip of the rain and the tremulous passage of the night air through the trees. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He poured a second absinthe into his cup and took the cup of water the girl brought him and commenced to drip it into the cup, a little at a time. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- These troughs reach over to the center of the top of the joists, and are soldered together, so that no water will drip on the floor below. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I hear the rain-drip on the stones, replies the young man, and I hear a curious echo--I suppose an echo--which is very like a halting step. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The rain is ever falling--drip, drip, drip--by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement, the Ghost's Walk. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The trees were dripping in the rain. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The Boulevard was all deserted, its path miry, the water dripping from its trees; the park was black as midnight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Shivering, dripping, and crying, they got Amy home, and after an exciting time of it, she fell asleep, rolled in blankets before a hot fire. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was very wet and had been dripping on the floor. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The rain, which was fast wetting me, dripped over the glass, blurred it, and prevented her from seeing anything. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva, and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:弗娜