Word · Frequency #18464
drove
畜群；兽群
a group of animals moving together, such as a herd or flock
- 1.
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
赶牛群或正被驱赶的牛群；亦指被赶往市场或新牧场的牛群数量。
- 2.
A group of hares.
一群野兔。
- 3.
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
习惯上、曾经或可用于驱赶牲畜的道路或小径；牧道。
- 4.
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
用于土地灌溉的狭窄排水沟或渠道。
- 5.
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
一种用于将石料表面修整至近乎光滑的宽凿。
- 6.
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
用宽凿修整出的带沟槽的石料表面。
人群；宽刃凿；赶牛群或正被驱赶的牛群；亦指被赶往市场或新牧场的牛群数量。；一群野兔。；习惯上、曾经或可用于驱赶牲畜的道路或小径；牧道。
In use
A huge drove of cattle blocked the country road, so we had to take a detour.
In autumn, droves of sheep are brought down from the mountains to the valleys.
The farmer watched his drove of goats graze near the river.
a drove of + plural noun
drove 作可数名词，指一起移动的兽群。
A drove of cattle blocked the road.
一群牛挡住了路。
in droves
droves 是 drove 的复数形式；in droves 意为“大批地、成群结队地”。
Tourists arrived in droves during the holiday.
假期里游客成群结队地涌来。
drove + somebody + to + somewhere
这里的 drove 是动词 drive 的过去式，表示过去开车送某人去某处。
Connections
Collocations
- in droves
- 成群地，大批地
- People left the city in droves during the heatwave.热浪期间，人们成群结队地离开这座城市。
- droves of tourists
- 成群结队的游客
- Droves of tourists crowded the narrow streets of the old town.成群的游客挤满了老城狭窄的街道。
- a drove of cattle
- 一群牛
- A drove of cattle wandered onto the road, stopping traffic.一群牛游荡到路上，阻断了交通。
- drove road
- 赶牲口的路
- This ancient drove road was once used by farmers to move livestock.这条古老的赶牲口道路曾是农民用来转移牲畜的。
Idioms & figurative uses
- in droves
- 成群结队地；大批地People came in droves to see the new movie.人们成群结队地来看这部新电影。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆联想：drive（驱赶）的过去式是drove，被赶着走的一大群动物或人就是drove（畜群/人群）。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：agricultural contexts、historical writing、literary descriptions drove 作“畜群”解时，通常用于书面语，多出现在农业、历史或文学性描述中；日常口语里更常用 herd 或 flock。使用时请留意其与动词 drive 的过去式 drove 在词性和含义上的区别。
Grammar Note
名词复数形式为droves。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都与 drove /drəuv/ 押韵，拼写都含 -ove。注意：love /lʌv/、dove（鸽子）/dʌv/、glove /ɡlʌv/、above /əˈbʌv/ 读短元音 /ʌv/；move /muːv/、prove /pruːv/ 读 /uːv/，它们都不与 drove 押韵。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.