droves

英 [drəʊvz]

美 [droʊvz]

n.  人群

Collins.1

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 人群
  If you say that people are going somewhere or doing somethingin droves, you are emphasizing that there is a very large number of them.
  1. Scientists are leaving the country in droves...
     科学家们正成批地离开这个国家。
  2. In the warm petrol-scented night, droves of young men and girls were strolling along the quays and packing the bars.
     在这个温暖的夜晚里，空气中弥漫着汽油的味道，成群结队的年轻男女或是漫步在码头边或是泡在酒吧间。

双语例句

• Surgeons a particularly exacting bunch have adopted robotics in droves.
  外科医师作为医护界中要求格外严格的一支队伍，早已采用了大量的机器人。
• Letters of protest arrived in droves.
  抗议信大批涌来。
• The company's stock tanks on the news that new users are leaving in droves.
  由于流传着新用户正成群结队地撤离AOL网络的消息，公司的股票一落千丈。
• Scientists are leaving the country in droves
  科学家们正成批地离开这个国家。
• Maples make those little whirlybird seeds you see spiraling down in droves each spring.
  每到春天你都能看见大量的枫树种子像一架架小小的直升机盘旋而下。
• People are deserting the party in droves.
  人们成群结队地离开晚会现场。
• "That's why people are coming here in droves."
  “这就是人们成群结队到这里来的原因。”
• They come in droves to see the natural wonder.
  他们一群群地来参观这一天然奇迹。
• The crowds were arriving in droves.
  人群正大批大批地涌来。
• How can you all come in droves like this?
  你们怎么都象这样成群的来？