dropping
美 ['drɒpɪŋ] 
英 ['drɒpɪŋ]
- n.滴；下降；下跌；减少
- v.减少；放弃；送；停止
- 网络丢弃；滴下；落下
英汉双解
落下fall
1. | [i][t] （意外地）落下，掉下，使落下to fall or allow sth to fall by accident |
| The climber slipped and dropped to his death. 攀登者一失足掉下去摔死了。 |
| Be careful not to drop that plate. 小心别把那盘子摔了。 |
2. | [i][t] （故意）降下，使降落，使落下to fall or make sth fall deliberately |
| He staggered in and dropped into a chair. 他蹒跚着走进来，一屁股坐在椅子上。 |
| Medical supplies are being dropped into the stricken area. 正在向灾区空投医药用品。 |
| He dropped his trousers(= undid them and let them fall) . 他松开腰带，让裤子掉下去。 |
| He dropped his pants. 他松开腰带，裤子掉下去。 |
3. | [i]
累倒；累垮to fall down or be no longer able to stand because you are extremely tired |
| I feel ready to drop . 我感到快累垮了。 |
| She expects everyone to work till they drop. 她巴不得人人都干到累垮为止。 |
变弱；减少become weaker/less
4. | [i][t] （使）变弱，降低，减少to become or make sth weaker, lower or less |
| The temperature has dropped considerably. 温度已大大降低。 |
| At last the wind dropped. 风势终于减弱了。 |
| His voice dropped to a whisper. 他的声音已放低到轻声细语了。 |
| The Dutch team have dropped to fifth place. 荷兰队已降至第五名。 |
| The price of shares dropped by 14p. 股价下跌了 14 便士。 |
| Shares dropped in price by 14p. 股价下跌了 14 便士。 |
| She dropped her voice dramatically. 她突然压低了声音。 |
| You must drop your speed in built-up areas. 在楼房密集区必须放慢速度。 |
眼睛eyes
5. | [i][t] your eyes/gaze ~.~ your eyes/gaze 垂下（眼睛）；垂视to look down |
| Her eyes dropped to her lap. 她双目低垂，看着自己的腿。 |
向下倾斜slope downwards
6. | [i] ~ (away) (from sth) 急剧倾斜而下to slope steeply downwards |
| In front of them the valley dropped sharply away from the road. 他们前面的山谷从路旁急剧倾斜而下。 |
运送；发送deliver/send
7. | [t] 中途卸客；中途卸货to stop so that sb can get out of a car, etc.; to deliver sth on the way to somewhere else |
| Can you drop me near the bank? 你可以让我在银行附近下车吗？ |
| You left your jacket, but I can drop it off on my way to work tomorrow. 你忘了拿你的短上衣，不过我可以在明天上班的路上顺便捎给你。 |
8. | [t] ~ sb a line/note 寄，送，写（信）to send a short letter to sb |
| Drop me a line when you get there. 你到那儿后给我写封信。 |
略去leave out
9. | [t] ~ sb/sth (from sth) 遗漏；省略；不予考虑to leave sb/sth out by accident or deliberately |
| She's been dropped from the team because of injury. 她因受伤而未被列入队员名单。 |
| He spoke with a cockney accent and dropped his aitches(= did not pronounce the letter ‘h’ at the start of words) . 他讲话带着伦敦东区的口音，把词首的 h 音给吞掉了。 |
朋友friends
10. | [t] ~ sb 不再与（某人）往来；同（某人）断绝联系to stop seeing sb socially |
| She's dropped most of her old friends. 她已与多数老朋友停止了来往。 |
停止stop
11. | [t] ~ sth 停止；终止；放弃to stop doing or discussing sth; to not continue with sth |
| I dropped German(= stopped studying it) when I was 14. 我 14 岁后就没再学德语。 |
| Drop everything and come at once! 放下所有事情赶快来吧！ |
| Look, can we just drop it(= stop talking about it) ? 喂，这事儿能不能就谈到这儿？ |
| I think we'd better drop the subject . 我认为我们最好不要谈这个话题。 |
| Let's drop the formalities─please call me Mike. 咱们不必拘礼，叫我迈克好了。 |
| The police decided to drop the charges against her. 警方决定撤回对她的指控。 |
暗示hint
12. | [t] ~ a hint 暗示；透露to say or do sth in order to show sb, in an indirect way, what you are thinking |
编织in knitting
13. | [t] ~ a stitch 漏，脱，掉（针）to let a stitch go off the needle |
液体of liquid
1. | [c] 滴；水珠a very small amount of liquid that forms a round shape |
2. | [c][ususing] 少量；微量；一点点a small quantity of a liquid |
| Could I have a drop more milk in my coffee, please? 请给我在咖啡里多加点牛奶好吗？ |
| I haven't touched a drop(= drunk any alcohol) all evening. 整个晚上我滴酒未沾。 |
下降fall
3. | [c][ususing] ~ (in sth) 下降；下跌；减少a fall or reduction in the amount, level or number of sth |
| a drop in prices/temperature, etc. 价格、温度等下降 |
| a dramatic/sharp drop in profits 利润大幅度╱急剧下降 |
| a five per cent drop 下跌百分之五 |
距离distance
4. | [sing] 下落的距离；落差a distance down from a high point to a lower point |
| There was a sheer drop of fifty metres to the rocks below. 距下面的岩石有五十米的垂直距离。 |
| a twenty-foot drop 二十英尺的落差 |
药medicine
5. | [pl] 滴剂a liquid medicine that you put one drop at a time into your eyes, ears or nose |
运送delivering
6. | [c] 运送；空投the act of delivering sb/sth in a vehicle or by plane; the act of dropping sth |
| Aid agencies are organizing food drops to civilians in the war zone. 援助机构正组织向战区平民运送食品。 |
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糖果sweet/candy
7. | [c] 球状糖果a small round sweet/candy of the type mentioned |
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| cough drops(= sweets/candy to help a cough) 止咳糖 |
习惯用语
drop the ball
犯错；处理失当to make a mistake and spoil sth that you are responsible for
drop a brick/clanger
失言伤人；出言不慎to say sth that offends or embarrasses sb, although you did not intend to
drop dead
暴死；突然死去；猝死to die suddenly and unexpectedly
别烦人；别打扰；别捣乱used to tell sb, rudely, to stop annoying you, interfering , etc.
drop sb in it
（尤指因泄露秘密）使尴尬，使狼狈不堪to put sb in an embarrassing situation, especially by telling a secret that you should not have told
drop names
提及自己认识或见过的名人以抬高身价to mention famous people you know or have met in order to impress others
drop your bundle
突然发蒙；失态to suddenly not be able to think clearly; to act in a stupid way because you have lost control over yourself
let sb/sth drop
不再提起；放弃to do or say nothing more about sb/sth
| I suggest we let the matter drop. 我建议咱们别再提及此事。 |
（好像是）无意中说出to mention sb/sth in a conversation, by accident or as if by accident
| He let it drop that the Prime Minister was a close friend of his. 他有意无意地提起首相是他的密友。 |
at the drop of a hat
立即；毫不迟疑immediately; without hesitating
| The company can't expect me to move my home and family at the drop of a hat. 公司不可能指望我立即搬家。 |
a drop in the ocean
沧海一粟；九牛一毛an amount of sth that is too small or unimportant to make any real difference to a situation
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
I didn't have much money with me, just a twenty and some ones, and I thought about "accidentally" dropping my bag and walking away.
我身上没有多少钱，只有二十几美元。我考虑着“不小心”让我的包掉下去，然后快步走开。
The government is trying to provide supplies by air, bringing in food and medicine, but it's like dropping a little salt into the ocean.
政府正在试图空运提供物资，运来食品和药品，但它就像海洋中的一小撮盐。
To retrieve it, a hacker would have to hoodwink the user into dragging and dropping an object across the PC's screen.
要得到它，黑客们不得不诱骗用户拖拽电脑显示器显示的某个对象。
Proof of this can be determined by dropping a baby tooth into a glass of it, then going back the next morning to find most of it eaten away.
我们来终结这个流言：将一颗牙齿仍在可乐玻璃杯里，第二天早上回来发现大部分被蚕食了。
"I want a lawyer, " he said, his voice suddenly dropping to that of a man.
“我要找律师。”他说，突然变成了一个成年男人的声音。
After dropping out of school for two years, Yan told her to do with sewing a small family on very diligent.
辍学后两年，闫曾跟她一起做些缝衣服的小活儿，很勤快。
The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it.
小男孩学到如果他抓住了瓶子顶部附近，用两只手，他可以拿着它不会掉。
It was an impressive sight: the water seemed to be dropping straight out of the clouds.
这是一个给人印象很深的景象：水似乎是直接从云中倾泻下来。
'Yes, an estate, that would be nice, ' said his wife, sitting down and dropping her hands in her lap.
“对，地产，那挺好的”，妻子坐了下来，两手搁在大腿上。
We were all surprised at Helen's reaction to her son's dropping out of school.
海伦对她儿子辍学的反应让我们感到惊讶。
car door, he felt as if he were dropping into a hole.
当莫里虚弱地拉开车门时，他觉得自己正在掉进无底深渊中。
Ahsoka fell on her knees, hilt dropping out of her hand. Vader deactivated his blade, watching her collapse to the ground.
阿索卡跌坐下来，光剑柄从她的手中滑落。维达关闭了他的光剑，看着她倒在地上。
The campaign to eliminate river blindness began as the most vertical programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides out of the sky.
根除河盲症运动开始时是可以想象的最纵向的规划：直升飞机从空中投撒杀虫剂。
They started after him, but he outran them across the parking lot and disappeared around the corner, dropping the documents as he fled.
他们在他之后开始，但是他超过他们横过停车场而且消失即将来临，降低文件当他逃出。
It's one of the most jaw-dropping moments of the book, the sort of thing you can't wait to see in a movie.
这是原作中最让人大跌眼镜的情节之一，你绝对迫不及待想在电影中看到它。
At its start, this was the most vertical control programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides from the sky.
一开始，它就可以说是最垂直的控制规划，人们甚至动用直升飞机从空中喷洒杀虫剂。
The company running the FlightNmo application submits flight price event data to the application by dropping XML data into a watched folder.
运行FlightNmo应用程序的公司通过将XML数据拖放到所监视的文件夹中，向应用程序提交航班价格事件数据。
The body and bonnet are best joined by holding the bonnet assembly open end up and dropping all required items into place one at a time.
装配时始终打开阀帽直到一次装入所有要求安装的配件可使阀体和阀帽良好配合。
For almost a year now, the Fed's been dropping interest rates, trying to pump money into the banking industry.
到目前为止近一年的时间内，美联储不断降低利率，试图为银行业注入资金。
Demanding tiger moms, he said, might not be very supportive of their kids dropping out of school.
他说，要求高的虎妈妈们可能不会太支持孩子辍学。
When he heard such words dropping carelessly from the lips of the members of this marvellous family, he thrilled with delight.
他听到这样的话从这了不起的一家人的嘴里随随便便地说出来，他不禁激动异常。
His parents are strongly against his dropping out of school.
他的父母强烈反对他放弃学业。
Each of the four 3 X 3 submetrices obtained by dropping one of the columns of A is singular.
由A中删去任一列所得到的四个3X3子矩阵都是奇异的。
I repeated them until I could recite seventy stories without dropping a word.
我反复背诵，直到我能一字不漏地背出70篇故事来。
My watch still hangs together dropping from the second floor.
我的手表从三楼掉到了楼下，却依然完整无缺。
Yellow dust was dropping from the limetrees.
菩提树枝头飘下黄色的花粉。
Don't sully the radio by dropping.
别把收音机摔坏了。
He is dropping off with fatigue.
他已经疲倦得昏昏欲睡。
The only way a dancer can stop dropping through the air is by stopping the body's momentum, which requires an opposing force-the ground.
舞者要阻止从空中掉落的惟一方法便是中止自己的动量，而这需要一个反面的来自一个平面的阻力。
After further conversation, I knew that he had become homeless after getting laid off from his job and dropping out of college .
进一步交流之后我知道在他丢掉工作从学校辍学以后已经无家可归了。
Maybe it just felt real good to run, or maybe one day, out of the corner of my eye, I saw tacklers reaching out for me and dropping behind.
或许跑起来感受真的很好，又或许有一天，我用余光看见有人想抓我却被我远远地抛在死后。
The anti-dropping against roller is provided with a pro-pressure device used for pressing the rails or other continuous and level supports.
防坠对滚轮设有压紧路轨或其他连续而平整的支撑物的预压力装置。
So many strange things have happened this year, he thought as he sat dropping pebbles into the well in the center of the commons yard.
这一年，发生了那么多奇怪的事情，他坐在院子里，把小圆石一个个投向院子中间的一口井里的时候，想。
"Lisa" was all that Claudia said before dropping the letter and jumping into her car and leaving her house at full speed.
“丽莎。”这是克劳迪亚扔下信，跳进汽车时所说的唯一的话，紧接着便全速离开。
I try to focus, but the music is too slippery. I can think of nothing but a vase slowly turning and the figures dropping off into space.
我企图集中注意力，但是音乐太难把握了，我只能想着一只花瓶慢慢翻转过去，音符散入空中去的情形。
The only way to get out of it is to push the cyclic forward and fly out of this vertical silo you're dropping through.
摆脱它的唯一途径就是向前推操纵杆从这个掉进去的筒状区域中飞出去。
If you need support without dropping tens of thousands of bucks a year, check out what open source has to offer in a particular area.
如果您需要支持，而又不想一年支出很多费用，那么就请看看在某个特定的领域开源能否效力。
As in many countries, dropping rubbish or leaving it behind is considered impolite and is punishable with a fine.
像在许多国家一样，随地扔垃圾被认为是不文明，会受到罚款处理；
Take it a step or two further and start dropping your chosen application solutions and related deployment timelines onto the roadmap.
进一步来说，可以开始将您选择的应用程序解决方案或相关部署时间安排放置到路线图上。
She liked dropping into a kindergarten on Nguyen Du street to see children playing, when she went selling steamed glutinous rice.
当她卖蒸糯米时，她很喜欢到nguyen路上的幼儿园去看孩子们玩。
but it strikes me as a bit of a coincidence that Nick is name-dropping Brit now when Backstreet's got an album coming out soon.
但我觉得这有点巧合的是，尼克是擅用他人名义英国人现在，当后街的相簿了出来不久。
The logic was that the eagle thought his head was a stone, wanting to kill the live tortoise by dropping it.
人们的推理是老鹰以为他的头是块石头，想把活乌龟空投到上面摔死。
Revenues are expected to continue dropping for at least the next two years.
据估计，在至少未来两年中，收入将持续下降。
The invention is a simple, easy to operating and low in cost, particularly suitable for protecting crew safe effectively when air dropping.
本发明是一种结构简单、操作简便、成本低廉、特别是适合在空投中有效保护乘员安全的全气囊缓冲座椅。
You end up dropping out of high school all the while unhappy with this path that will leave you destined to be broke or end up in jail.
你读完高中就辍学了，一直对这条路感到不开心，这会导致你命中住地地成为破坏者或者在监狱终此一生。
You can only add additional control flow inputs and outputs to an activity after dragging and dropping it into a reusing process model.
当您将某个活动拖放到采用重用方法的流程模型中之后，只能向该活动添加更多的控制流输入和输出。
Fueled in part by this massive injection of liquidity, housing prices that had started dropping due to the recession began to soar again.
导致了部分这样的大规模注入流动资金，房价已经开始下降导致经济衰退又一次加剧。
I'm trying very hard not to think of this move as "dropping out, " but I can't help worrying about her future if she doesn't finish school.
我一直努力试着说服自己，不要把她的举动视为“辍学”，但我还是禁不住担心，如果她不读完大学，她的未来会怎么样？
