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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXICasting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel.
-- Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,--rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides--addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, "Try Barnard's Mixture."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans told him what had happened, how he was dry, and wanted to milk his cow, but found the cow was dry too.
-- What a shame to take my horse, and give me only a dry cow!If I kill her, what will she be good for?
-- answered she, 'I was cooking you a steak; but while I went down to draw the ale, the dog ran away with it; and while I ran after him, the ale ran out; and when I went to dry up the ale with the sack of meal that we got at the fair, I upset the jug: but the cellar is now quite dry, and looks so clean!'
-- Then she gave him the dry bread.
-- They ate the dry bread together; and Frederick said, 'Kate, I hope you locked the door safe when you came away.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rested two or three minutes, and then gave the boat another shove, and so on, till the sea was no higher than my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; the wind being favourable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, until we arrived within forty yards of the shore; and, waiting till the tide was out, I got dry to the boat, and by the assistance of two thousand men, with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bot-tom, and found it was but little damaged.
-- It was all rocky: however I got many birds' eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs.
-- I took out my small provisions and after having re-freshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
-- My bed was the same dry grass and sea-weed which I intended for fuel.
-- Some were condensing air into a dry tangible sub-stance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
-- A space of stunted grass and dry rubbish being between him and the young rabble, he took his eyeglass out of his waistcoat to look for any child he knew by name, and might order off.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, a little, thin, white, pink-eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feebleness, mental and bodily; who was always taking physic without any effect, and who, whenever she showed a symptom of coming to life, was invariably stunned by some weighty piece of fact tumbling on her; Mrs. Gradgrind hoped it was a dry ditch?
-- 'You had better say, National, as he said so,' returned Louisa, with her dry reserve.
-- 'Not so much of that as you may suppose,' returned Tom; 'for our governor had her crammed with all sorts of dry bones and sawdust.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bedding was composed of dry hay thrown into two long red wooden boxes, ornamented with sentences painted in Icelandic.
-- There was little for them to eat, but moss and some very dry and innutritious grass; next day they were ready before the door, some time before we were.
-- Our hostess offered to pull off our stockings and trousers, according to the custom of the country, but as we graciously declined to be so honored, she left us to our bed of dry fodder.
-- Presently he halted and placed his ear against the dry stone, moving slowly along and listening with the most extreme care and attention.
-- Mechanically I crawled about, feeling the dry and arid rock.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your pure mind is going as dry as fiddlesticks, from what I see of it.
-- When the rock and refuse of the underworld had burned and given off its sulphur, it turned bright pink, shrimp-coloured on dry days, darker, crab-coloured on wet.
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