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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was struck too by the business- like, dry and even contemptuous menacing tone of Pyotr Petrovitch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was ablack barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off,high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of itfor a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the wayof a habitation that was visible to me.
-- There was a delightful door cut in the side, and it was roofed in,and there were little windows in it; but the wonderful charm of itwas, that it was a real boat which had no doubt been upon thewater hundreds of times, and which had never been intended to be 36lived in, on dry land.
-- He was dressed in a suit of black clothes which were ratherrusty and dry too, and rather short in the sleeves and legs; and hehad a white neckerchief on, that was not overclean.
-- My scatteredsenses were soon collected as to that point, if I had; for I came to astop in the Kent Road, at a terrace with a piece of water before it,and a great foolish image in the middle, blowing a dry shell.
-- It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for hefrequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeezethem dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way,on his pocket-handkerchief.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope it is a dry situation, and that her health will be taken good care of.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dry leaves in the ditch simmered and boiled in the same breezes, a tongue of air occasionally ferreting out a few, and sending them spinning across the grass.
-- By making inquiries he found that the girl's name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that the cow would go dry in about seven days.
-- On the higher levels the dead and dry carcasses of leaves tapped the ground as they bowled along helter-skelter upon the shoulders of the wind, and little birds in the hedges were rustling their feathers and tucking themselves in comfortably for the night, retaining their places if Oak kept moving, but flying away if he stopped to look at them.
-- " And so I used to eat a lot of salt fish afore going, and then by the time I got there I were as dry as a lime-basket so thorough dry that that ale would slip down ah, 'twould slip down sweet!Happy times!Heavenly times!Such lovely drunks as I used to have at that house!You can mind, Jacob?
-- came from Joseph Poorgrass's dry lips.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are such a couple of dry sticks that if they happen to strike against each other they will draw sparks like flint and steel."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reflected on this, and by touching the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in col-lecting a great quantity of wood, that I might dry it and have 120 Frankensteina plentiful supply of fire.
-- I covered it carefully with dry wood and leaves and placed wet branches upon it; and then, spreading my cloak, I lay on the ground and sank into sleep.
-- I lighted the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They'll do fine on a dry track, a fast track, but mark my words, I don't believe the Wilkes can run on a mudtrack.
-- Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
-- The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when Scarlett arrived in Atlanta a warm sun was at work,bravely attempting to dry the streets that were winding rivers of red mud.
-- Then he had to dry your eyes and usually he proposed, to show just how much he didrespect you.
-- Part Three CHAPTER XVII MAY OF 1864 CAME a hot dry May that wilted the flowers in the buds and the Yankees under GeneralSherman were in Georgia again, above Dalton, one hundred miles northwest of Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other, always working and working his dry lips and turning his eyes restlessly about him far and near, did at last turn them for a moment on the speaker, with the words, "You are not much to look at," and with a half-taunting glance at the bound hands.
-- It was a dry cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard.
-- Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home, so that we stood shivering in the back-yard.
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