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When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.
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One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.
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The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt.
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If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky high divorce rate.
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bring about a drop in the divorce rate
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SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.
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Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.
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Uh, you can either drop it off at my class or bring it to my office.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
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Jack asked me to drop off this report.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.
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It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
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Many students have dropped Prof. Johnson's class.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
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A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain individuals.
2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
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Carpets, for instance, seem to be slightly better places to drop your food than wood or tile.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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However, some parents are concerned that it encourages their children to drop litter so they can watch the birds to pick it up.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
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Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support.
2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced radical change on the industry.
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Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.
2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.
2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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When an object did not drop out of the bottom of a rattling container, they looked at it for a longer time than they did when the container behaved as expected.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014.
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In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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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.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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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.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
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Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.
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In 2009, the number dropped to 9%.
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The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.
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For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.
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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.
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On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.
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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.
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Twenty years later, it was purposefully dropped to make way for Negro.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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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.
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Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10.
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Moreover, home prices barely dropped.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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Both stocks and homes, more widely held, dropped more
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Spending on such "durables" dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008's third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth.
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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.
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Their bank savings rate dropped to zero.
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Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.
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Why do some students drop out after a year or two according to the author
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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
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Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.
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He is going to drop the physics course
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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What about dropping you at the south gate and I'll find parking somewhere else.
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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
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Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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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.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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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.
2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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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
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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Look, I'm terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, but it is rather important.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
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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.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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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.
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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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.
例句
Temperatures can drop to freezing at night...
夜间温度可能会降到零度以下。
Once the rate rises it never drops back to its previous level...
一旦价格上去了就再也不会降到以前的水平了。
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VERB
(意外地)使掉下,使落下
If you drop something, you accidentally let it fall.
例句
I dropped my glasses and broke them.
我不小心把眼镜掉下来摔碎了。
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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.
例句
He felt hot tears dropping onto his fingers...
他感觉到热泪掉到他的手指上。
Burning embers started dropping from the ceiling...
余火未尽的木块开始从天花板上往下掉。
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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.
例句
Drop the noodles into the water...
将面条下到水里。
He dropped his plate into the sink.
他把盘子丢到水槽里。
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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.
例句
Nancy dropped into a nearby chair...
南希疲惫地瘫坐到近处的椅子上。
She let her head drop...
她低垂着头。
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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.
例句
She looked about to drop...
她看上去快要累垮了。
You have to run until you drop.
一直跑到你跑不动为止。
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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.
例句
A couple of boozy revellers dropped their trousers.
两名醉酒的狂欢者脱掉了他们的裤子。
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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.
例句
Her voice will drop to a dismissive whisper...
她会把声音压低,轻蔑地低语。
He dropped his voice and glanced round at the door.
他放低了声音,在门口环视了一下。
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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.
例句
He dropped me outside the hotel...
他把我送到了酒店。
Many children had been dropped at the stadium by their parents...
很多孩子被家长送到了体育馆。
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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.
例句
He was told to drop the idea...
他被告知要打消那个主意。
The prosecution was forced to drop the case...
控方被迫撤诉。
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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.
例句
The country's captain was dropped from the tour party to England.
该国的国家队队长无缘英格兰之行。
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VERB
输掉
If you drop a game or part of a game in a sports competition, you lose it.
例句
Oremans has yet to drop a set.
奥尔曼斯还一局未输。
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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.
例句
Britain has dropped from second to third place in the league.
英国在联赛中的排名从第二位降到了第三位。
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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.
例句
...a drop of blue ink...
一滴蓝墨水
Add the cream a few drops at a time...
每次加几滴奶油。
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滴剂
Drops are a kind of medicine which you put drop by drop into your ears, eyes, or nose.
例句
...eye drops.
眼药水
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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.
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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.
例句
There was a sheer drop just outside my window...
我的窗外就是垂直深渊。
It's only a four-foot drop.
仅有 4 英尺的落差。
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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.
例句
If I drop a few hints he might give me a cutting.
如果我给点暗示,他没准会送我一段插枝。
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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.
例句
Mary Ann wished he would just drop it...
玛丽·安希望他就不要谈论它了。
Does that mean you're going to drop the subject?
那是不是意味着你将不再谈论那个话题了?
Noun
1. a small quantity (especially of a liquid);
"one drop of each sample was analyzed""any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro""there is not a drop of pity in that man"2. a shape that is small and round;
"he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops""beads of sweat on his forehead"3. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;
"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index""there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery""a dip in prices""when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"4. a steep high face of rock;
"he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town""a steep drop"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;
"it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"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;
"they expected the drop would be successful"Verb
1. let fall to the ground;
"Don't drop the dishes"2. to fall vertically;
"the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"3. go down in value;
"Stock prices dropped"4. fall or drop to a lower place or level;
"He sank to his knees"5. terminate an association with;
"drop him from the Republican ticket"6. utter casually;
"drop a hint"7. stop pursuing or acting;
"drop a lawsuit""knock it off!"8. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;
9. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;
"strike down a tree""Lightning struck down the hikers"10. lose (a game);
"The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13"11. pay out;
"spend money"12. lower the pitch of (musical notes)
13. hang freely;
"the ornaments dangled from the tree""The light dropped from the ceiling"14. stop associating with;
"They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"15. let or cause to fall in drops;
"dribble oil into the mixture"16. get rid of;
"he shed his image as a pushy boss""shed your clothes"17. leave undone or leave out;
"How could I miss that typo?""The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"18. change from one level to another;
"She dropped into army jargon"19. grow worse;
"Her condition deteriorated""Conditions in the slums degenerated""The discussion devolved into a shouting match"20. give birth; used for animals;
"The cow dropped her calf this morning"