| 单词 | drone |
| 释义 | drone (once / 1075 pages) 1vn 2n 3n 4n To drone is to make a low, continuous noise that sounds like humming or buzzing. On summer nights, you might hear cicadas drone, and on snowy winter mornings, hear your neighbor's snow blower drone. Like animals and machines, people drone too, their voices sounding dull and tedious: "When my history teacher drones on, it's hard to stay awake." Drone is also a noun, meaning the monotonous sound itself, like the drone of a boring lecture; or a male worker bee; or a person who's as unambitious as a worker bee. Finally, there are the drones that fly by remote control, doing surveillance, gathering weather information, and occasionally firing missiles for the military. WORD FAMILYdrone: droned, drones, droning+/droning: dronings USAGE EXAMPLESThe arms race is fed in part by the slow pace of government regulation for drones. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Visitors should allow for extra time getting to their destination. Also banned: No drones. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Meanwhile, she authorised the transfer to Estonia of high-precision long-range missiles to be deployed alongside drones, tanks and RAF jets. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v make a monotonous low dull sound The harmonium was droning on Hyper go, sound make a certain noise or sound 2v talk in a monotonous voice Syn|Hyper drone on mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 3n an unchanging intonation Syn|Hyper droning, monotone intonation, modulation, pitch contour rise and fall of the voice pitch 4n a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone 2Syn|Hyper bourdon, drone pipe pipe a tubular wind instrument n stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen 3Hyper bee any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species n an aircraft without a pilot and operated by remote control 4Syn|Hyper pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft heavier-than-air craft a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it n someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind Syn|Hypo|Hyper dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer lingerer, loiterer someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mudsomeone who moves slowly potterer, putterera person who putters about straggler, strayersomeone who strays or falls behind bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer person who does no work |
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