dry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 干(旱) 的； 干渴的； 枯燥vt. 使干燥， 晒干，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others made small mudembankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high 39windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted frag-ments with eager relish.
-- Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
-- Some of us have damp ways, and some of us have dry ways.
-- Through gloomy vaults where the light of day had never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cav-ernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, more like dry waterfalls than staircases, De-farge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make.
-- Villain Foulon taken, my sis-ter!Old Foulon taken, my mother!Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and scream-ing, Foulon alive!Foulon who told the starving people they might eat grass!Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts where dry with want!O mother of God, this Foulon!O Heaven our suffering!Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Fou-lon!Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow from him!With these cries, numbers of the wom-en, lashed into blind frenzy, whirled about, striking and tearing at their own friends until they dropped into a pas-sionate swoon, and were only saved by the men belonging to them from being trampled under foot.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Gerda was so glad to be on dry land again; but she was rather afraid of the strange old woman.
-- He had gone out and got his feet wet; though nobody could imagine how it had happened, for it was quite dry weather.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this course nine obstacles had been arranged: the stream, a big and solid barrier five feet high, just before the pavilion, a dry ditch, a ditch full of water, a precipitous slope, an Irish barricade (one of the most difficult obstacles, consisting of a mound fenced with brushwood, beyond which was a ditch out of sight for the horses, so that the horse had to clear both obstacles or might be killed); then two more ditches filled with water, and one dry one; and the end of the race was just facing the pavilion.
-- It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.
-- Marya Philimonovna called one of them and handed her a sheet and a shirt that had dropped into the water for her to dry them, and Darya Alexandrovna began to talk to the women.
-- The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
-- The old servant to whose hut he had gone to get dry evidently approved of Levin's plan, and of his own accord proposed to enter the partnership by the purchase of cattle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Copses of dates and dwarf-palms succeeded the dense forests; then vast, dry plains, dotted with scanty shrubs, and sown with great blocks of syenite.
-- The Parsee lit a fire in the bungalow with a few dry branches, and the warmth was very grateful, provisions purchased at Kholby sufficed for supper, and the travellers ate ravenously.
-- It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stout had precise and enormous knowledge; in his dry voice he could repeat more facts about the left little toe than you would have thought anybody would care to learn regarding the left little toe.
-- "Barney's" was a poolroom, a tobacco shop and, since Mohalis was dry by local option, an admirable blind-pig.
-- Of course my work--I'm taking my Doctor of Philosophy degree in English--" She made it sound as though she were taking her earldom--"it's rather dry and detached.
-- Gottlieb was so angry that he forgot to speak English, and as all his cursing was in student German, in a creaky dry voice, the whole scene was very funny indeed to the cackling bookkeeper and the girl stenographers.
-- Well, welcome, gentlemen--" He flung out his arms in a dry hysteria.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread and in one mo-ment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm!Phew, how utterly petty it all is!'
-- Then he wiped it all with some linen that was hanging to dry on a line in the kitchen and then he was a long while attentively examining the axe at the window.
-- and he pulled out of his pocket Raskol-nikov's old, broken boot, stiffly coated with dry mud.
-- For the family had come to such a pass that they were practically without change of linen, and Katerina Ivanovna could not endure uncleanliness and, rather than see dirt in 258 Crime and Punishmentthe house, she preferred to wear herself out at night, work-ing beyond her strength when the rest were asleep, so as to get the wet linen hung on a line and dry by the morning.
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