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

• The crowds were arriving in droves.
  人群正大批大批地涌来。
• 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。
• Tourists come in droves to see the giant panda.
  成群结队的游客前来观赏大熊猫。
• 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。
• 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。
• How can you all come in droves like this?
  你们怎么都象这样成群的来？
• 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。
• Domestic and international tourists come in droves to climb the wall, but then they turn around and leave.
  海内外游客云集到此，爬了爬城墙，扭头就走。