Drip

(noun.) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway).

(noun.) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; 'the constant sound of dripping irritated him'.

(noun.) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; 'there's a drip through the roof'.

(verb.) fall in drops; 'Water is dripping from the faucet'.

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• I heard, through the dead silence, the soft drip of the rain and the tremulous passage of the night air through the trees. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He poured a second absinthe into his cup and took the cup of water the girl brought him and commenced to drip it into the cup, a little at a time. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• These troughs reach over to the center of the top of the joists, and are soldered together, so that no water will drip on the floor below. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I hear the rain-drip on the stones, replies the young man, and I hear a curious echo--I suppose an echo--which is very like a halting step. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The rain is ever falling--drip, drip, drip--by day and night upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement, the Ghost's Walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Finding him at last beginning to tire, we drew him into the boat, and brought him home dripping wet. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The trees were dripping in the rain. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The Boulevard was all deserted, its path miry, the water dripping from its trees; the park was black as midnight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sometimes the path led her to hollows between thickets of tall and dripping bracken, dead, though not yet prostrate, which enclosed her like a pool. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Shivering, dripping, and crying, they got Amy home, and after an exciting time of it, she fell asleep, rolled in blankets before a hot fire. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was very wet and had been dripping on the floor. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The rain, which was fast wetting me, dripped over the glass, blurred it, and prevented her from seeing anything. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Their leaps and bounds increased, their bared fangs dripped saliva, and their lips and breasts were flecked with foam. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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