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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air was dry and the sky unclouded blue.
-- There was no wood to be found, however, but fortunately the rocks were covered with a poor, dry species of lichen.
-- The dry meat certainly seemed poor fare, and Paganel couldn't help saying:"I tell you what, some grilled llama wouldn't be bad with this, would it?
-- It is an extremely dry wind which blows from the southwest.
-- The dry heat became severe.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the prop-er time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
-- I learned from it also this, in particular, that being abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in the dry season was almost al-ways accompanied with such storms, so I found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in Sep-tember and October.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had depended on a twilight walk to the Grecian temple, and perhaps all over the grounds, and an evening merely cold or damp would not have deterred her from it; but a heavy and settled rain even SHE could not fancy dry or pleasant weather for walking.
-- Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Morgenroth the clothier and Gibson the dry goods man."
-- It was a wholesale dry goods concern and employed women.
-- "Have you ever had any experience in the wholesale dry goods business?"
-- It was a flowering out of feelings which had been withering in dry and almost barren soil for many years.
-- In the glare of the store lights, some of the faces looked dry and chalky; others were red with blotches and puffed in the cheeks and under the eyes; one or two were rawboned and reminded one of railroad hands.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I struck the head of the island I never waited to blow, though I was most winded, but I shoved right into the tim-ber where my old camp used to be, and started a good fire there on a high and dry spot.
-- We come to a little flat piece of land which was dry and very thick with trees and bushes and vines, and he says: 'You shove right in dah jist a few steps, Mars Jawge; dah's whah dey is.
-- My bed was a straw tickQbetter than Jim's, which was a corn- shuck tick; there's always cobs around about in a shuck tick, and they poke into you and hurt; and when you roll over the dry shucks sound like you was rolling over in a pile of dead leaves; it makes such a rustling that you wake up.
-- 'Dry up!I don't want to hear no more out of you!'
-- And I've pegged along ever since, dry as a powder-horn.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them.
-- And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't!Oh!--Oh!--Oh!"
-- He cried all night, and dawn found him still there, though his tears had dried and only hard, dry sobs shook his wooden frame.
-- I'll dry my clothes and warm myself, and then--well--" His mind made up, Pinocchio swam to the rocks, but as he started to climb, he felt something under him lifting him up higher and higher.
-- Do you know what I can do; I am going to take you to the market once more and sell you as dry firewood."
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