drop是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to fall or to allow something to fall -- （使）落下，（使）掉下；丟下

  • She dropped her keys. 她把鎖匙掉了。

  • I'm always dropping things. 我總是掉東西。

  • Amanda dropped her sunglasses in/into the fountain. 阿曼達把太陽鏡掉進噴水池裡了。

  • The book dropped from/off the shelf. 書從書架上掉了下來。

  • Don't drop it!/Don't let it drop! 別讓那東西掉下來！

  • He dropped dead on the squash court at the age of 43. 他猝死在壁球場上，年僅43歲。

  • Just drop me a line when you decide on a date. 一旦你確定了日期給我寫信就行。

  • She dropped a hint that she'd like to come to the party. 她暗示她想來參加派對。

• 1 to move to a lower level, or cause something to move to a lower level -- （使）下降，（使）降低

  • The water level in the flooded region has finally begun to drop. 受災地區的洪水終於開始退去了。

  • The land drops (away) (= slopes down) sharply behind the barrier. 在這道屏障的後面，地勢急劇傾斜而下。

  • We had to drop our prices because of the recession. 由於經濟不景氣，我們不得不降低了價格。

• 2 to stop doing or planning something, especially an activity -- 停止，放棄（尤指某種活動）

  • I'm going to drop yoga and do aerobics instead. 我準備不再練瑜伽而開始做有氧運動。

  • Can you drop what you're doing and help me with this report? 你能停下手裡的工作來幫我寫這份報告嗎？

  • He's been dropped from the team because of injury. 他因受傷而未能入選球隊。

• 3 to take someone to a particular place, usually in a car, and leave them there -- （通常指用汽車）帶，捎（某人至某地）

  • They dropped me off at the main entrance. 他們把我帶到正門。

  • I dropped him at the library and went shopping. 我開車把他帶到圖書館後就去買東西去了。

• 4 a small round-shaped amount of liquid -- 滴

  • I thought I felt a drop of rain. 我覺得有一滴雨落在了身上。

  • There were little drops of paint on the kitchen floor. 廚房地板上有幾小滴油漆。

  • I'll have a drop more juice, please. 請再給我來一點果汁。

  • "Would you like some milk?" "Just a drop, please." 「你要牛奶嗎?」「請稍加一點。」

  • eye/nose/ear drops 眼藥水／滴鼻劑／滴耳劑

  • fruit/pear drops 水果／梨味糖

  • chocolate drops 巧克力糖

• 5 the distance from one thing to something lower -- 下降距離，下落距離

  • There's a drop of two metres from the window to the ground. 窗戶離地面有兩米的距離。

  • The recent drop in magazine subscriptions is causing some concern. 最近雜誌訂閱數量的減少引起了一些關注。

• 6 the act of delivering things such as supplies, medicine, etc., often by dropping them from an aircraft -- （補給品、藥品等的）空投，空降

  • a food drop 空投食品

  • The helicopter made a drop of much-needed supplies to the stranded hikers. 直升機向被困的徒步旅行者空投了他們急需的用品。