1. (使)降低;(使)下降;(使)减少
If a level or amount drops or if someone or something drops it, it quickly becomes less.
e.g. Temperatures can drop to freezing at night...
夜间温度可能会降到零度以下。
e.g. Once the rate rises it never drops back to its previous level...
一旦价格上去了就再也不会降到以前的水平了。
2. (意外地)使掉下,使落下
If you drop something, you accidentally let it fall.
e.g. I dropped my glasses and broke them.
我不小心把眼镜掉下来摔碎了。
3. 掉到…上;从…上掉落
If something drops onto something else, it falls onto that thing. If something drops from somewhere, it falls from that place.
e.g. He felt hot tears dropping onto his fingers...
他感觉到热泪掉到他的手指上。
e.g. Burning embers started dropping from the ceiling...
余火未尽的木块开始从天花板上往下掉。
4. 投下;丢下;扔下;掉下
If you drop something somewhere or if it drops there, you deliberately let it fall there.
e.g. Drop the noodles into the water...
将面条下到水里。
e.g. He dropped his plate into the sink.
他把盘子丢到水槽里。
dropping...the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
第一颗原子弹的投放
5. (疲惫地)垂下,低垂,垂落
If a person or a part of their body drops to a lower position, or if they drop a part of their body to a lower position, they move to that position, often in a tired and lifeless way.
e.g. Nancy dropped into a nearby chair...
南希疲惫地瘫坐到近处的椅子上。
e.g. She let her head drop...
她低垂着头。
6. 累倒;累垮
To drop is used in expressions such as to be about to drop and to dance until you drop to emphasize that you are exhausted and can no longer continue doing something.
e.g. She looked about to drop...
她看上去快要累垮了。
e.g. You have to run until you drop.
一直跑到你跑不动为止。
7. (开玩笑或不雅地)脱掉(裤子)
If a man drops his trousers, he pulls them down, usually as a joke or to be rude.
e.g. A couple of boozy revellers dropped their trousers.
两名醉酒的狂欢者脱掉了他们的裤子。
8. (使)(声音)降低,压低
If your voice drops or if you drop your voice, you speak more quietly.
e.g. Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper...
她会把声音压低,轻蔑地低语。
e.g. He dropped his voice and glanced round at the door.
他放低了声音,在门口环视了一下。
9. 中途放下(某人);中途卸下(某物)
If you drop someone or something somewhere, you take them somewhere and leave them there, usually in a car or other vehicle.
e.g. He dropped me outside the hotel...
他把我送到了酒店。
e.g. Many children had been dropped at the stadium by their parents...
很多孩子被家长送到了体育馆。
10. 停止;终止;放弃
If you drop an idea, course of action, or habit, you do not continue with it.
e.g. He was told to drop the idea...
他被告知要打消那个主意。
e.g. The prosecution was forced to drop the case...
控方被迫撤诉。
droppingThis was one of the factors that led to President Suharto's dropping of his previous objections.
这是导致苏哈托总统放弃其先前异议的因素之一。
11. (运动队或组织)把…除名
If someone is dropped by a sports team or organization, they are no longer included in that team or employed by that organization.
e.g. The country's captain was dropped from the tour party to England.
该国的国家队队长无缘英格兰之行。
12. 输掉
If you drop a game or part of a game in a sports competition, you lose it.
e.g. Oremans has yet to drop a set.
奥尔曼斯还一局未输。
13. (在比赛中)排位退后
If you drop to a lower position in a sports competition, you move to that position.
e.g. Britain has dropped from second to third place in the league.
英国在联赛中的排名从第二位降到了第三位。
14. 滴;少量;微量;一点点
A drop of a liquid is a very small amount of it shaped like a little ball. In informal English, you can also use drop when you are referring to a very small amount of something such as a drink.
e.g. ...a drop of blue ink...
一滴蓝墨水
e.g. Add the cream a few drops at a time...
每次加几滴奶油。
15. 滴剂
Drops are a kind of medicine which you put drop by drop into your ears, eyes, or nose.
e.g. ...eye drops.
眼药水
16. (水果味或巧克力味的)糖豆,糖果粒
Fruit or chocolate drops are small round sweets with a fruit or chocolate flavour.
drop
17. 落差;垂直距离;下降距离
You use drop to talk about vertical distances. For example, a thirty-foot drop is a distance of thirty feet between the top of a cliff or wall and the bottom of it.
e.g. There was a sheer drop just outside my window...
我的窗外就是垂直深渊。
e.g. It's only a four-foot drop.
仅有 4 英尺的落差。
Do not confuse
drop and
fall. Although things can
drop or
fall by accident, note that
fall is not followed by an object, so you cannot say that someone 'falls' something. However, you can say that they
drop something, or that something
drops.
Leaves were falling to the ground... He dropped his cigar... Plate after plate dropped from his fingers. You say that a person
drops when they jump straight down from something, for example, when someone jumps from a plane using a parachute. If someone
falls it is usually because of an accident.
He stumbled and fell. Drop and
fall are also nouns. A
drop is the height of something when you imagine falling off it.
Sixteen hundred feet is a considerable drop. A
fall is what happens when someone has an accident.
I had been badly bruised by the fall.不要混淆 drop 和 fall。二者均可指东西无意中掉落, 但是fall 不可接宾语,所以不可说someone falls something,却可说they drop something或者somehting drops。如,Leaves were falling to the ground(树叶落到了地上),He dropped his cigar(他扔掉了雪茄),Plate after plate dropped from his fingers(盘子一个接一个地从他指间掉落)。drop 还可指人从某物上跳下, 例如从飞机上跳伞。fall 指人时, 通常指人意外摔倒。如,He stumbled and fell(他绊了一下, 摔倒了)。drop 和 fall 均可用作名词。drop 作名词可指某人想象中物体降落的高度:Sixteen hundred feet is a considerable drop(1, 600 英尺是非常高的垂直距离了)。fall 指意外的跌落:I had been badly bruised by the fall(我摔得鼻青脸肿)。
18. 随口说出;给出暗示
If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
e.g. If I drop a few hints he might give me a cutting.
如果我给点暗示,他没准会送我一段插枝。
19. (常指因不喜欢而让别人)终止谈论,不要谈论,谈到此为止
If you want someone to drop the subject ,drop it, or let it drop, you want them to stop talking about something, often because you are annoyed that they keep talking about it.
e.g. Mary Ann wished he would just drop it...
玛丽·安希望他就不要谈论它了。
e.g. Does that mean you're going to drop the subject?
那是不是意味着你将不再谈论那个话题了?
20. see also: air drop
to drop dead -> see dead
at the drop of a hat -> see hat
to drop someone a line -> see line
a drop in the ocean -> see ocean
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