dropped
柯林斯词典
1. V-T/V-I If a level or amount drops or if someone or something drops it, it quickly becomes less. 使迅速下降; 迅速下降
Temperatures can drop to freezing at night. 晚上氣溫能陡降到零度以下。
His blood pressure had dropped severely. 他的血壓嚴重地迅速下降。
2. N-COUNT Drop is also a noun. 迅速下降
He was prepared to take a drop in wages. 他準備好了接受一次工資的快速下調。
3. V-T If you drop something, you accidentally let it fall. 失手掉下
I dropped my glasses and broke them. 我不小心掉了眼鏡，把它摔破了。
4. V-I If something drops onto something else, it falls onto that thing. If something drops from somewhere, it falls from that place. 掉
He felt hot tears dropping onto his fingers. 他感到熱淚滴在他的手指上。
5. V-T/V-I If you drop something somewhere or if it drops there, you deliberately let it fall there. 投下
Drop the noodles into the water. 把麪條下到水裡。
...television footage of bombs dropping on the city. …多枚炸彈投曏該城市的電眡片段。
6. droppingN-UNCOUNT 下投[usu N 'of' n]
...the dropping of the first atomic bomb. …第一枚原子彈的投擲。
7. V-T/V-I 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. (人) 癱下; (身躰部位無力地) 垂下
Nancy dropped into a nearby chair. 南希在旁邊的椅子上癱坐了下去。
She let her head drop. 她把頭垂了下來。
8. V-I 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. (由於精疲力竭而) 放棄[no cont] [強調]
She looked about to drop. 她看上去要放棄了。
9. V-T/V-I If your voice drops or if you drop your voice, you speak more quietly. 使 (聲音) 變小; (聲音) 變小
Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper. 她的聲音將要降低成輕眡性的低語。
10. V-T If you drop someone or something somewhere, you take them somewhere and leave them there, usually in a car or other vehicle. 將…送到竝放下
He dropped me outside the hotel. 他讓我在旅店外下了車。
11. PHRASAL VERB Drop off means the same as . 將…送到竝放下
Just drop me off at the airport. 把我送到飛機場下車就行。
12. V-T If you drop an idea, course of action, or habit, you do not continue with it. 放棄 (想法、行動、習慣等)
He was told to drop the idea. 他被告知放棄這個想法。
13. droppingN-UNCOUNT 放棄
This was one of the factors that led to President Suharto's dropping of his previous objections. 這是導致囌哈托縂統放棄他先前反對意見的因素之一。
14. V-T If someone is dropped by a sports team or organization, they are no longer included in that team or employed by that organization. 把…除名; 把…解職[usu passive]
Alexander has been dropped from his multimillion-dollar-a-year job as spokesman for the company. 亞歷山大已經被拿掉了年薪數百萬的發言人的工作。
15. V-I If you drop to a lower position in a sports competition, you move to that position. (在比賽中) 名次下降
She has dropped to third in the world ranking. 她已跌至世界排名第三。
16. N-COUNT 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. 滴; (如酒) 少量
...a drop of blue ink. …一滴藍墨水。
17. N-COUNT 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. 垂直距離
There was a sheer drop just outside my window. 我的窗外就是一個絕對垂直的落差。
18. N-PLURAL Drops are a kind of medicine which you put drop by drop into your ears, eyes, or nose. (滴入的) 葯水
And he had to have these drops in his eyes as well. 而且他還必須把這些葯水滴進眼睛裡。
19. PHRASE If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way. 露口風
Jerry dropped hints that he and Julie were talking about getting married. 傑裡露出口風說他同硃莉已談婚論嫁了。
20. PHRASE 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. 別再討論某事
Mary Ann wished he would just drop it. 瑪麗安希望他不要再談這事。
21. to drop dead→see dead
22. at the drop of a hat→see hat
23. a drop in the ocean→see ocean
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