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

• How can you all come in droves like this?
  你们怎么都象这样成群的来？
• 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。
• 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。
• "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。”
• Foreign investors have left the government and corporate bond markets of Italy and Spain in droves in the past year, and there is little evidence of the selling slowing down.
  过去一年里，外国投资者纷纷撤离意大利和西班牙国债和公司债券市场，这种行为如今并没有多少减慢的迹象。
• Its high ceilings, spaceship design, restaurants, long bar and floor shows attracted gamblers in droves.
  它高高的天花板、太空船式的设计、各色的餐馆、长长的吧台和现场表演吸引了成群的赌客。
• 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。
• They come in droves to see the natural wonder.
  他们一群群地来参观这一天然奇迹。
• Scientists are leaving the country in droves
  科学家们正成批地离开这个国家。