英汉词典

drop 基本解释

• vt. 滴；使降低；使终止；随口漏出
• vi. 下降；终止
• n. 滴；落下；空投；微量；滴剂

drop 词态变化

drop 中文词源

来自PIE*dhreu, 滴，词源同drip.

drop 英文词源

drop

drop: [OE] Drop, droop, and drip are closely related. Droop [13] was borrowed from Old Norse drūpa, which came from a Germanic base *drūp-. A variant of this, *drup-, produced Middle Danish drippe, the probable source of English drip [15], and a further variant, *drop-, lies behind Old English dropa, ancestor of modern English drop.

All three go back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European *dhreub-, source of Irish drucht ‘dew’. The English noun originally meant ‘globule of liquid’, and its related verb ‘fall in drops’. The main modern transitive sense, ‘allow to fall’, developed in the 14th century, giving English a single word for the concept of ‘letting fall’ not shared by, for example, French and German, which have to use phrases to express it: respectively, laisser tomber and fallen lassen.
=> drip, droop

drop (n.)

Old English dropa "a drop of liquid," from Proto-Germanic *drupon (cognates: Old Saxon dropo, Old Norse dropi, Dutch drop, Old High German tropfo, German Tropfen (n.)), from PIE *dhreu-. Meaning "an act of dropping" is from 1630s; of immaterial things (prices, temperatures, etc.) from mid-19c. Meaning "lozenge, hard candy" is 1723. Meaning "secret place where things can be left illicitly and picked up later" is from 1931. Drop in the bucket (late 14c.) is from Isa. ix:15 [KJV]. At the drop of a hat "suddenly" is from 1854; drop-in "casual visit" is 1819; drop-kick is 1857. To get the drop on someone originally was Old West gunslinger slang (1869).

drop (v.)

Old English dropian "to fall in drops" (see drop (n.)). Meaning "to fall vertically" is late 14c. Transitive sense "allow to fall" is mid-14c. Related: Dropped; dropping. Exclamation drop dead is from 1934; as an adjective meaning "stunning, excellent" it is first recorded 1970.

drop 词组搭配

drop 英文释义

1. a small quantity (especially of a liquid);

"one drop of each sample was analyzed"

"any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro"

"there is not a drop of pity in that man"

2. a shape that is small and round;

"he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"

"beads of sweat on his forehead"

3. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"

"there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"

"a dip in prices"

"when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

4. a steep high face of rock;

"he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"

"a steep drop"

5. a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)

6. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

"it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"

7. a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery

8. a central depository where things can be left or picked up

9. the act of dropping something;

"they expected the drop would be successful"

drop 同义词解析

descend, drop, fall, sink

这些动词都表示"落下，下降"之意。

descend： 通常指沿斜线或斜坡下降。

drop： 指物体从一定高度落下。

fall与drop同义，指突然或猛烈地降落，但fall也可指任何下落，同高度或形式无关。

sink： 指在空气或水中垂直下降、下沉。

drop 双语例句

1. Drop the dough onto a baking sheet with a teaspoon.

用茶匙把生面团舀到烤盘上。

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2. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass.

我让马低下头啃吃春天的青草。

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3. Daddy called and asked me to drop by his office.

爸爸打来电话让我去他办公室一趟。

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4. The drop in travel is bad news for the airline industry.

旅游热降温对航空业来说是个坏消息。

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5. The drop was caused partly by the pound's strength against the dollar.

下降的部分原因在于英镑对美元的升值。

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drop 实用场景例句

The climber slipped and dropped to his death.

攀登者一失足掉下去摔死了。

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Temperatures can drop to freezing at night...

夜间温度可能会降到零度以下。

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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。

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I dropped my glasses and broke them.

我不小心把眼镜掉下来摔碎了。

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He felt hot tears dropping onto his fingers...

他感觉到热泪掉到他的手指上。

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Burning embers started dropping from the ceiling...

余火未尽的木块开始从天花板上往下掉。

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Drop the noodles into the water...

将面条下到水里。

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He dropped his plate into the sink.

他把盘子丢到水槽里。

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Nancy dropped into a nearby chair...

南希疲惫地瘫坐到近处的椅子上。

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She let her head drop...

她低垂着头。

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She looked about to drop...

她看上去快要累垮了。

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You have to run until you drop.

一直跑到你跑不动为止。

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A couple of boozy revellers dropped their trousers.

两名醉酒的狂欢者脱掉了他们的裤子。

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Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper...

她会把声音压低，轻蔑地低语。

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He dropped his voice and glanced round at the door.

他放低了声音，在门口环视了一下。

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He dropped me outside the hotel...

他把我送到了酒店。

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Many children had been dropped at the stadium by their parents...

很多孩子被家长送到了体育馆。

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He was told to drop the idea...

他被告知要打消那个主意。

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The prosecution was forced to drop the case...

控方被迫撤诉。

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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。

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Oremans has yet to drop a set.

奥尔曼斯还一局未输。

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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。

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...a drop of blue ink...

一滴蓝墨水

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Add the cream a few drops at a time...

每次加几滴奶油。

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...eye drops.

眼药水

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There was a sheer drop just outside my window...

我的窗外就是垂直深渊。

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It's only a four-foot drop.

仅有 4 英尺的落差。

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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。

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Mary Ann wished he would just drop it...

玛丽·安希望他就不要谈论它了。

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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？

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