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：
-- She was a little, rather dry woman.
-- I can sit perfectly dry under this porch.
-- She had found her scrap of handkerchief and was blindly trying to dry her face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle.
-- For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
-- he asked, with a dry hot pallor upon him, rather difficult of association with merriment.
-- With intervals of Marshalsea lounging, and Mrs Bangham succession, his small second mother, aided by her trusty friend, got him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker's, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, into a general dealer's, into a distillery, into the law again, into a wool house, into a dry goods house, into the Billingsgate trade, into the foreign fruit trade, and into the docks.
-- The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a narrow dry trough under the lee of the wall, where he walked up and down among the waits of straw and dust and paper, the waste droppings of the pump, and the stray leaves of yesterday's greens.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should think two long walks this morning would have been enough!It's cold and dull out, and I advise you to stay warm and dry by the fire, as I do,' said Meg with a shiver.
-- So Jo, feeling that her late lessons in cookery were to do her honor, went to preside over the coffeepot, while the children col-lected dry sticks, and the boys made a fire and got water from a spring near by.
-- You and I will read these pleasant little MARCHEN together, and dig no more in that dry book, that goes in the corner for making us trouble.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips.
-- "'I am a Hebrew,' he cries and then 'I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!'
-- Then God spake unto the fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth; and 'vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;' when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean Jonah did the Almighty's bidding.
-- He only asked for water fresh water something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against the bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying to himself "It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians.
-- Dry heat upon my brow?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble regarded Oliver's piteous and helpless look, with some astonishment, for a few seconds; hemmed three or four times in a husky manner; and after muttering something about 'that troublesome cough,' bade Oliver dry his eyes and be a good boy.
-- Oliver walked twenty miles that day; and all that time tasted nothing but the crust of dry bread, and a few draughts of water, which he begged at the cottage-doors by the road-side.
-- The sun rose and sank, and rose and sank again, and many times after that; and still the boy lay stretched on his uneasy bed, dwindling away beneath the dry and wasting heat of fever.
-- You may give him a little tea, ma'am, and some dry toast without any butter.
-- After tea she began to teach Oliver cribbage: which he learnt as quickly as she could teach: and at which game they played, with great interest and gravity, until it was time for the invalid to have some warm wine and water, with a slice of dry toast, and then to go cosily to bed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- And, first, I found that all the ship's provisions were dry and untouched by the wa-ter, and being very well disposed to eat, I went to the bread room and filled my pockets with biscuit, and ate it as I went about other things, for I had no time to lose.
-- I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, but knew not where our gunner had stowed them; but with much search I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water.
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