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

• 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。
• 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。
• Droves of dispossessed people emigrated to Canada.
  一批批流离失所的人们移民到了加拿大。
• 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。
• 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。
• People are deserting the party in droves.
  人们成群结队地离开晚会现场。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The crowds were arriving in droves.
  人群正大批大批地涌来。