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

• 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。
• Scientists are leaving the country in droves
  科学家们正成批地离开这个国家。
• Droves of dispossessed people emigrated to Canada.
  一批批流离失所的人们移民到了加拿大。
• 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。
• The crowds were arriving in droves.
  人群正大批大批地涌来。
• I battled my way through droves of shoppers.
  我奋力挤过一群又一群的购物者。
• "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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• Journalists who had deserted in droves to the daily express.
  纷纷弃职投效《每日快报》的一些记者。