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：
-- More than half a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of an extensive and dry rock.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Ichabod approached this fearful tree, he began to whistle; he thought his whistle was answered; it was but a blast sweeping sharply through the dry branches.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He chuckled in a funny, dry way he had, and I called her.
-- Dry thy tears," said Strickland, addressing Ata.
-- She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they searched in vain for wood or dry brambles; nothing but sand and stones were to be found.
-- Among the long grass, Pencroft felt that his feet were crushing dry branches which crackled like fireworks.
-- In a kind of little bay, created by a point of the shore which broke the current, the sailor and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood, which they had fastened together with dry creepers.
-- But a sailor is never at a loss when there is a question of cables or ropes, and Pencroft rapidly twisted a cord, a few fathoms long, made of dry creepers.
-- "Still we might get fire as the savages do," replied Herbert, "by rubbing two bits of dry stick one against the other."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were furnished with slippers and such dry garments as the house or their own bundles afforded, and ensconcing themselves, as Mr Codlin had already done, in the warm chimney-corner, soon forgot their late troubles or only remembered them as enhancing the delights of the present time.
-- Disencumbering himself of a barrel organ which he placed upon a chair, and retaining in his hand a small whip wherewith to awe his company of comedians, he came up to the fire to dry himself, and entered into conversation.
-- You had better stand by the fire here, and dry yourselves a bit.
-- This is the Valiant Soldier, by James Groves Jem Groves honest Jem Groves, as is a man of unblemished moral character, and has a good dry skittle-ground.
-- The dwarf glanced sarcastically at his brazen friend, and, with a short dry cough, turned upon his heel to bid adieu to Miss Sally.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he washed his partly gold-filled teeth with a tooth-powder, rinsed them with a perfumed mouth-wash, then began to sponge himself and dry his body with Turkish towels.
-- The kalsomining of the walls was peeled off, and the dry boards of the cots occupied two-thirds of the space.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen.
-- Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economise my camphor.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea was wet as wet could be,The sands were dry as dry.You could not see a cloud, becauseNo cloud was in the sky:No birds were flying over head There were no birds to fly.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dreadful stories they were about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main.
-- I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.
-- "That comes as you call it of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock.
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