droop是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 下垂，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Thing was still clothed, and at a distance its face still seemed human; but the carriage of its four limbs was feline, and the furtive droop of its shoulder was distinctly that of a hunted animal.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her dress was not uncomfortable anywhere; her lace berthe did not droop anywhere; her rosettes were not crushed nor torn off; her pink slippers with high, hollowed- out heels did not pinch, but gladdened her feet; and the thick rolls of fair chignon kept up on her head as if they were her own hair.
-- It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.
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：
-- Like thee and thine, venerable chief,' she continued, pressing her hands convulsively on her heart, and suffering her head to droop until her burning cheeks were nearly concealed in the maze of dark, glossy tresses that fell in disorder upon her shoulders, 'the curse of my ancestors has fallen heavily on their child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He makesdreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now hethrows his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over ourbooks and tremble.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very much,' said Arthur, withdrawing his eyes from the delicate head beginning to droop and the pale face with a new solicitude stealing over it.
-- Now, the title was perfectly sound, and the estate was to be purchased by one who had the command of Money (jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), on remarkably advantageous terms.
-- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case?
-- But gradually he began to droop and tire, and at last stretched himself upon the bed.
-- Gradually, after this closing exposition, Mr Pancks subsided; allowed his hair to droop as much as it ever would droop on the utmost persuasion; reclaimed the pipe from the fire-irons, filled it anew, and smoked it out.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One saw it in the lines of her figure, the make and motion of her hands, the flow of her dress, the droop of her hair, unconscious yet harmonious, and as attractive to many as beauty itself.
-- Few cared to buy flowers in summer, and her bouquets began to droop long before night.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole.
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