| 单词 | dry |
| 释义 | dry I. 1. a. obsolete b. of a sign of the zodiac 2. a. < the path is dusty on a dry day > < a dry summer > b. c. 3. a. < dry land > < dry clothes > b. < the dry method of assaying gold > < portland cement may be manufactured by dry process or wet process > — compare wet 8 c. (1) < dry masonry > < a dry stone wall > (2) < a dry wall > < dry wall construction > d. of breadstuff e. of a foodstuff f. of natural gas g. of a friction clutch 4. a. (1) < the garden is dry from lack of rain > < the machine automatically stops when it runs dry > (2) < he felt dry after his walk > b. < it was a dry party but the food was good > < a man who had been dry for a dozen years — New York Times Book Review > c. (1) (2) d. 5. a. of a container or receptacle < a dry well > < the fountain pen ran dry in the middle of a sentence > b. < a dry ravine > 6. of an animal or its udder < a dry cow > 7. a. (1) < hardly a dry eye at the funeral > (2) < a dry sob > b. < some children learn to stay dry much earlier than others > c. (1) < a dry pleurisy > (2) of a cough 8. a. obsolete < dry war > < dry death > b. < dry rehearsal > < dry firing > 9. a. < dry groceries > < dry provisions > < dry cargo > b. 10. a. < under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart — Jane Austen > < she sat there looking dry and indifferent — Lionel Trilling > b. fine art 11. a. < a poet who is going through a dry period which he finds frustrating — Rosemary Benét > b. obsolete, of a person c. dialect 12. < his dry humor which made him say the most amusing things and keep his face so absolutely solemn — Eleanor Roosevelt > 13. < ought … to have used the dry light of reason in discussing matters of high morality, politics and religion — Times Literary Supplement > < a certain dry spirit of detachment and analysis — Aldous Huxley > 14. < in the dryest passages of her historical summaries these delightful descriptions come running to the rescue — Robert Payne > < his dry schoolmaster temperament, the hurdy-gurdy monotony of him — William James > 15. a. < dry simplicity > < dry fact > < dry formality > b. archaic c. of a dog 16. a. (1) of beverages (2) of wines and other fermented beverages < dry champagne > < dry sauterne > — see sec b. of mixed drinks < a dry martini > c. < a dry rasping voice > < a chipping sparrow gives a dry, unmusical trill — W.P.Smith > < the dry whisper of winter leaves — Edith Sitwell > < this recording of the piano solo is dry and harsh > 17. < dry law > < dry agent > < dry sentiment > < a dry state > Synonyms: < not a drop of water could we find, and the arid aspect of the valley as a whole showed only too plainly that the rainfall, on this side of the island at least, must be scant indeed — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > dry suggests lack of qualities compelling interest, arid absence of worthwhile, fruitful, or significant, as well as interesting, qualities < a very dry book > < the frank elucidation of such a principle, with an aesthetic near to a moral obligation, might imply only bleak and arid results — Holbrook Jackson > Applied to persons, their manner or sayings, dry implies loss of warmth, responsiveness, enthusiasm, or emotion, arid an absence of or incapacity for these < this structural defect might have been overcome — and may still be overcome — if the intellectual leadership were less arid — Barbara Ward > Synonym: see in addition sour. • - not dry behind the ears II. transitive verb 1. 2. < the sun will dry up the dew quickly > 3. intransitive verb 1. < nylon dries rapidly > < I dried at the electric blower — Saul Bellow > 2. a. of moisture or a liquid < the drying up during the summer of the shallow ponds — W.H.Dowdeswell > b. 3. of a female mammal Synonyms: < clothes drying on the line > < to dry up a swamp > < drying the dishes with a towel > desiccate indicates a complete exhaustion of moisture, with resultant shriveling or withering; in reference to persons it indicates loss of animation, vitality, capacity to interest < desiccated fish > < desiccated coconut meat > < the spur of an imagination not yet desiccated by a too strict adhesion to those so-called ‘laws’ — Eric Partridge > < achieves her dream of gentility by marrying a stockbroker and settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery — C.J.Rolo > dehydrate, like desiccate, indicates complete elimination of water but usually lacks additional suggestion < dehydrated fruits > It may refer to a condition of the body resulting from loss or deprivation of fluids < he may develop fever from becoming dehydrated — Benjamin Spock > bake in the meaning here involved may indicate not only drying by heat or fire but also hardening, sometimes with resulting cracking < clay tablets on which all three types were present — that is, tablets on which the wedges had been impressed while they were still soft and then baked in — Fletcher Pratt > < the sun-baked mud flats > parch suggests drying by dry heat or drought; it may imply effects comparable to thirst and suggest that water will restore and refresh < record heat waves which have parched mid-America's usually productive plains — New York Times Magazine > < we had drunk all our water and so were parched and all done in when we finally espied a small, scattered Bedouin camp — National Geographic > III. 1. 2. a. chiefly Australia (1) (2) b. 3. 4. 5. 6. plural drys 7. < speed of dry of printing inks > IV. < “what a thrilling life you have!” “Yeah,” I says, dry — Bant Singer > |
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