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

• Middle-class Syrians and secular activists are leaving in droves.
  中产阶级和不信教的激进分子都成群结队地逃离叙利亚。
• Letters of protest arrived in droves.
  抗议信大批涌来。
• Reactionary positions on abortion and contraception were defeated in one contest after another in the US last month, and opinion polls in the UK suggest that women voters are deserting the Conservatives in droves.
  对堕胎和节育的反对立场上个月在美国于一轮轮的抗议中被驳倒，而民意调查结果表明英国女性选民成群结队地抛弃了保守派。
• 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。
• 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。
• The crowds were arriving in droves.
  人群正大批大批地涌来。
• Tourists come in droves to see the giant panda.
  成群结队的游客前来观赏大熊猫。
• And I saw many animals in the wild droves, elephants and that was fascinating.
  我看到一群群的野生动物，比如大象，太迷人了。
• The water here is warmer than the Atlantic and draws swimmers and surfers in droves.
  这里的海水比大西洋的要温暖得多，游泳者和冲浪者蜂拥而至。
• 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。