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

• 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。
• They began to appear in nameless droves.
  他们开始大群地涌现，无名无姓。
• 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。
• 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。
• People are deserting the party in droves.
  人们成群结队地离开晚会现场。
• 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。
• Tourists come in droves to see the giant panda.
  成群结队的游客前来观赏大熊猫。
• Letters of protest arrived in droves.
  抗议信大批涌来。
• I battled my way through droves of shoppers.
  我奋力挤过一群又一群的购物者。