drop

英[drɒp]美[drɑːp]

v.落下，（使）降低，使掉下，累倒，中途放下，停止，把…除名，急剧倾斜而下，给…送到，断绝往来；

n.滴，少量，减少，糖豆，落差，空投；

第三人称单数：drops;

过去式：dropped;

过去分词：dropped;

现在分词：dropping;

例句

I felt as if every drop of emotion had been squeezed out of me.我感觉我的感情被榨得一滴不剩了。

While they're playing scene two in front of the curtain, you can drop in the scenery for the next act.他们在幕前演第二场时, 你可以放下下一幕的布景。

We watched the drop of the parachutists from the plane.我们看着伞兵从飞机上降落下来。

Drop in now and again.有空过来玩吧。

The factory has laid off workers because of the drop in sales.那个工厂由于销量下降而暂时解雇了工人。

I can drop you off on my way home.我回家可以顺便送你。

a perceptible drop in temperature可以觉得出气温下降了

The waterfall makes a sheer drop of one thousand feet.瀑布从一千英尺的高处直泻而下。

Lisbon’s foreign earnings have been badly hurt by the drastic drop in tourism.由于旅游业的严重滑坡,里斯本的外汇收入大受影响。

It was so still you could have heard a pin drop.这是那样的寂静, 连一根针落地的声音你都可以听到。

英语六级真题

Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores.

Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.

In 2009, the number dropped to 9%.

The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10.

Moreover, home prices barely dropped.

Both stocks and homes, more widely held, dropped more

Spending on such "durables" dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008's third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth.

That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked.

Their bank savings rate dropped to zero.

Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.

Why do some students drop out after a year or two according to the author

Drop in bias Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise to popularity

Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.

He is going to drop the physics course

What about dropping you at the south gate and I'll find parking somewhere else.

The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems

Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

Look, I'm terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, but it is rather important.

The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

This is in comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the total yogurt and kefir market according to natural and organic market research company SpiNS.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

V-ERG

（使）降低;（使）下降;（使）减少

If a level or amount drops or if someone or something drops it, it quickly becomes less.

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VERB

(意外地)使掉下,使落下

If you drop something, you accidentally let it fall.

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VERB

掉到…上;从…上掉落

If something drops onto something else, it falls onto that thing. If something drops from somewhere, it falls from that place.

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V-ERG

投下;丢下;扔下;掉下

If you drop something somewhere or if it drops there, you deliberately let it fall there.

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V-ERG

(疲惫地)垂下,低垂,垂落

If a person or a part of their body drops to a lower position, or if they drop a part of their body to a lower position, they move to that position, often in a tired and lifeless way.

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VERB

累倒;累垮

To drop is used in expressions such as to be about to drop and to dance until you drop to emphasize that you are exhausted and can no longer continue doing something.

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VERB

(开玩笑或不雅地)脱掉（裤子）

If a man drops his trousers, he pulls them down, usually as a joke or to be rude.

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V-ERG

(使)(声音)降低,压低

If your voice drops or if you drop your voice, you speak more quietly.

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VERB

中途放下（某人）;中途卸下（某物）

If you drop someone or something somewhere, you take them somewhere and leave them there, usually in a car or other vehicle.

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VERB

停止;终止;放弃

If you drop an idea, course of action, or habit, you do not continue with it.

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VERB

(运动队或组织)把…除名

If someone is dropped by a sports team or organization, they are no longer included in that team or employed by that organization.

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VERB

输掉

If you drop a game or part of a game in a sports competition, you lose it.

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VERB

(在比赛中)排位退后

If you drop to a lower position in a sports competition, you move to that position.

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N-COUNT

滴;少量;微量;一点点

A drop of a liquid is a very small amount of it shaped like a little ball. In informal English, you can also use drop when you are referring to a very small amount of something such as a drink.

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N-PLURAL

滴剂

Drops are a kind of medicine which you put drop by drop into your ears, eyes, or nose.

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(水果味或巧克力味的)糖豆，糖果粒

Fruit or chocolate drops are small round sweets with a fruit or chocolate flavour.

N-COUNT

落差;垂直距离;下降距离

You use drop to talk about vertical distances. For example, a thirty-foot drop is a distance of thirty feet between the top of a cliff or wall and the bottom of it.

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PHRASE

随口说出;给出暗示

If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.

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PHRASE

(常指因不喜欢而让别人)终止谈论，不要谈论，谈到此为止

If you want someone to drop the subject ,drop it, or let it drop, you want them to stop talking about something, often because you are annoyed that they keep talking about it.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

(使)落下, 投下，放下

(使)降低, 减少, 减弱

vt.

放弃, 断绝交往

漏掉, 丢掉

让人下车, 卸下货物

（故意）降下，使降落，使落下

累倒；累垮

垂下（眼睛）；垂视

急剧倾斜而下

寄，送，写（信）

遗漏；省略；不予考虑

停止；终止；放弃

暗示；透露

漏，脱，掉（针）

n.

滴, 滴剂, 滴状物

降落, 下跌

空投, 空投物

少量；微量；一点点

下落的距离；落差

球状糖果

vi.

(水或其他液体)滴，滴下，滴落；滴水

(好像无生命似的)陷到(或落到)地上(或地板上、底部)

(因受伤或死等)倒下，累倒；倒毙

结束，完结，停止，终止；呆滞，停滞

降(或移)到较低、较后、较下方的位置，下降；落后；贬降

退出，撤出；离开(常与 out，from 连用)

不费劲地转入(或进入)某种状态(或活动等)，不知不觉地陷入某种状态(或形成某种习惯)

停止出现，不再被看见；消失

(犬等看见猎物时)蹲伏，蹲下或弯身

(随潮流或微风)缓慢移动；随波漂流；随风飘；顺山坡流下；慢慢行进(常与 down 连用)

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a small quantity (especially of a liquid);

2. a shape that is small and round;

3. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

4. a steep high face of rock;

5. a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)

6. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

7. a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery

8. a central depository where things can be left or picked up

9. the act of dropping something;

Verb

1. let fall to the ground;

2. to fall vertically;

3. go down in value;

4. fall or drop to a lower place or level;

5. terminate an association with;

6. utter casually;

7. stop pursuing or acting;

8. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;

9. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;

10. lose (a game);

11. pay out;

12. lower the pitch of (musical notes)

13. hang freely;

14. stop associating with;

15. let or cause to fall in drops;

16. get rid of;

17. leave undone or leave out;

18. change from one level to another;

19. grow worse;

20. give birth; used for animals;

行业词典

体育： 在遗失球或其他状况要将球重新定位时；令球由空中自由落下；

医学： 量；

大气科学： 滴谱参数；drop-size distribution pa-rameter 描述单位体积中云(或雨)滴粒子数量随其大小分布的参数。；

水利： 跌水；连接两段高程不同的渠道的阶梯式跌落建筑物。；

法律： 下跌；下降；