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

• 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。
• 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。
• They began to appear in nameless droves.
  他们开始大群地涌现，无名无姓。
• 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？
• 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。
• "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。”
• I battled my way through droves of shoppers.
  我奋力挤过一群又一群的购物者。
• 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。
• They come in droves to see the natural wonder.
  他们一群群地来参观这一天然奇迹。