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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。
畜群；兽群
droves — plural of drove
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畜群；兽群
a group of animals moving together, such as a herd or flock
A drove of cattle blocked the road.
一群牛挡住了路。
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。
A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
一群野兔。
A group of hares.
习惯上、曾经或可用于驱赶牲畜的道路或小径；牧道。
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
用于土地灌溉的狭窄排水沟或渠道。
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
A huge drove of cattle blocked the country road, so we had to take a detour.
一大群牛挡住了乡间公路，我们不得不绕道而行。
In autumn, droves of sheep are brought down from the mountains to the valleys.
秋天，成群的绵羊从山上被赶到山谷里。
The farmer watched his drove of goats graze near the river.
农夫看着他的山羊群在河边吃草。
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。
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。
这里的 drove 是动词 drive 的过去式，表示过去开车送某人去某处。
She drove me to the station.
她开车送我去车站。
drive somebody + adjective 意为“使某人变得……”，drove 是 drive 的过去式。
The long wait drove me mad.
漫长的等待让我发疯。
Not this
I have drove to work.
Use this
I have driven to work.
现在完成时由 have/has 加过去分词构成；drove 是 drive 的过去式，不是过去分词，因此应改为 driven。
Not this
She wants to drove there.
Use this
She wants to drive there.
不定式 to 后必须接动词原形；drove 是过去式，不能用于 to 之后，应改为 drive。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
我开着我的雪佛兰去河堤，可河堤已经干涸了。
A line from Don McLean's 1971 song 'American Pie', often used to evoke nostalgia for the past and the loss of innocence.
出自唐·麦克林1971年的歌曲《美国派》，常用来唤起对过去的怀念和纯真的失落。
他们击垮老迪克西的那一夜。
A line from The Band's 1969 song about the American Civil War and the defeat of the Confederate South.
出自The Band乐队1969年的歌曲，讲述美国内战和南方邦联的失败。
Use droves naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
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）。
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。
名词复数形式为droves。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.