drove

大学 FREQ #2120

n. 畜群 drive的过去式

发音

UK /dɹəʊv/
US /dɹoʊv/

词形变化

droves 复数 droves droved droves 三单 droving droving 现在分词 droved 过去式 droved 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

畜群；牛群、羊群等；移动的人群或大批的东西

动词

驾驶（drive的过去式）；赶(牲畜)；(牲畜贩子)买卖(牲畜)

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

  2. 2.

    A large number of people on the move.

    比喻 引申义

    in droves

  3. 3.

    A group of hares.

  4. 4.

    A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.

  5. 5.

    A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.

  6. 6.

    A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.

  7. 7.

    The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

v.
  1. 1.

    simple past of drive

  2. 2.

    past participle of drive

    方言
  3. 3.

    To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

    赶

  4. 4.

    To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

swarm horde

上位词 2

crowd chisel

相关短语

drive off 驾车离去; 驶去; 赶走; 击退 drive away 驱车离开; 把…驱开, 赶走; 祛 drive at 意指 drive up a. (为顾客提供)免下车服务的, 服务到车上的 drove off drove a wedge between drove to distraction drove someone crazy drove something into the ground drove someone insane drove someone mad drove someone nuts drove someone up the wall drove into the ground drove the porcelain bus

词源

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

来源：wiktionary