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。
• Sasquatch brought droves of people to a far-flung corner of Washington State for a long weekend.
  在一个悠长的周末，大批乐迷不约而同地赶赴华盛顿州一个遥远的角落，参加在那里举行的野人音乐节（Sasquatch）。
• They come in droves to see the natural wonder.
  他们一群群地来参观这一天然奇迹。
• 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。
• Clever graduates and foreigners came in droves.
  无数聪明的大学毕业生和外国人来到了金融城。
• Domestic and international tourists come in droves to climb the wall, but then they turn around and leave.
  海内外游客云集到此，爬了爬城墙，扭头就走。
• Yet Iraq's people are being murdered in droves for want of order.
  但是，因出现了秩序真空，伊拉克人民正被成群杀害。
• Builders that last year had droves of interested investors say that today, they're struggling to find cash.
  建筑商们表示，他们去年还有许多感兴趣的投资者，目前却难以获得现金。
• Letters of protest arrived in droves.
  抗议信大批涌来。
• They were trying to maintain law and order amongst the droves of injured citizens.
  他们设法在成群受伤的市民中间维护法律和治安。