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 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。
• 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。
• I battled my way through droves of shoppers.
  我奋力挤过一群又一群的购物者。
• How can you all come in droves like this?
  你们怎么都象这样成群的来？
• 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。
• We walked through the museum without a guide and found ourselves amid droves of American tourists.
  我们在博物馆里走着，没有导游，结果跑到一大群美国游客中去了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Yet Iraq's people are being murdered in droves for want of order.
  但是，因出现了秩序真空，伊拉克人民正被成群杀害。
• 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。