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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hol-mes leaned forward in his excitement and his eyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly interested.
-- The pen has splut-tered twice in a single word, and has run dry three times in a short address, showing that there was very little ink in the bottle.
-- Even in dry seasons it is a danger to cross it, but after these autumn rains it is an awful place.
-- Two in two days, and many more, perhaps, for they get in the way of going there in the dry weather, and never know the difference un-til the mire has them in its clutches.
-- There is a dry glitter in his eyes, and a firm set of his thin lips, which goes with a positive and possibly a harsh nature.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because he has found land at last, the fatherland that he sought in vain before; and, because his soul is rejoiced to find it, he throws himself upon it and kisses it!Oh, it is not from vanity alone, it is not from feelings of vanity that Rus-sians become Atheists and Jesuits!But from spiritual thirst, from anguish of longing for higher things, for dry firm land, for foothold on a fatherland which they never believed in be-cause they never knew it.
-- May you be accursed too, for you were the only one I trusted among them all!Go away, Rogojin, I don't want you,' she continued, blind with fury, and forcing the words out with dry lips and distorted features, evidently not believing a single word of her own tirade, but, at the same time, doing her utmost to prolong the moment of self-deception.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they reached the wide-stretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships.
-- Menelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out of the press while his squire brought up his chariot, but Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans and killed Doryclus, a bastard son of Priam; then he wounded Pandocus, Lysandrus, Pyrasus, and Pylartes; as some swollen torrent comes rushing in full flood from the mountains on to the plain, big with the rain of heaven many a dry oak and many a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea even so did brave Ajax chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses.
-- The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats.
-- The Trojans led by him and by Iamenus, Orestes, Adamas the son of Asius, Thoon and Oenomaus, raised a loud cry of battle and made straight for the wall, holding their shields of dry ox-hide above their heads; for a while the two de-fenders remained inside and cheered the Achaeans on to stand firm in the defence of their ships; when, however, they saw that the Trojans were attacking the wall, while the Dan-aans were crying out for help and being routed, they rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, and charging on either side break down the wood all round them tearing it up by the roots, and one can hear the clat-tering of their tusks, till some one hits them and makes an end of them even so did the gleaming bronze rattle about their breasts, as the weapons fell upon them; for they fought with great fury, trusting to their own prowess and to those who were on the wall above them.
-- The valiant son of Anchises was of the same mind, and the pair went right on, with their shoulders covered under shields of tough dry ox-hide, overlaid with much bronze.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, "and give them a good dry in the kitchen?"
-- "I suppose I may have them to dry now," she said in a voice that brooked no denial.
-- They were the soundest boots he had come across for a long time, but too large for him; whereas the ones he had were, in dry weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin-soled for damp.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember our voic-es were dry and thin, so that we bent towards one another and spared our words.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For a wolf, no,' said Tabaqui, 'but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
-- 'Good!Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it.
-- All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
-- Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all.'
-- 'Of that we shall judge later,' said Bagheera, in a dry voice that Mowgli did not at all like.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
-- returned the disappointed scout; 'I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do!and yet for a reasoning aim, if any-body but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know.
-- To you, Cora, I will urge no words of idle en-couragement; your own fortitude and undisturbed reason will teach you all that may become your sex; but cannot we dry the tears of that trembling weeper on your bosom?'
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