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

• "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。”
• Letters of protest arrived in droves.
  抗议信大批涌来。
• They began to stay away in droves and Underground Atlanta quickly began to go downhill.
  他们许多人不再来光顾了，于是地下亚特兰大很快就开始走上了下坡路。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They come in droves to see the natural wonder.
  他们一群群地来参观这一天然奇迹。
• I battled my way through droves of shoppers.
  我奋力挤过一群又一群的购物者。
• 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。
• Droves of dispossessed people emigrated to Canada.
  一批批流离失所的人们移民到了加拿大。