drone

• n. 雄蜂；嗡嗡的聲音；懶惰者
• vi. 嗡嗡作聲；混日子
• vt. 低沉地說
• n. (Drone)人名；(法)德羅納

擬聲詞。

drone (n.)

Old English dran, dræn "male honeybee," from Proto-Germanic *dran- (cognates: Middle Dutch drane; Old High German treno; German Drohne, which is from Middle Low German drone), probably imitative; given a figurative sense of "idler, lazy worker" (male bees make no honey) 1520s. Meaning "pilotless aircraft" is from 1946.

Drones, as the radio-controlled craft are called, have many potentialities, civilian and military. Some day huge mother ships may guide fleets of long-distance, cargo-carrying airplanes across continents and oceans. Long-range drones armed with atomic bombs could be flown by accompanying mother ships to their targets and in for perfect hits. ["Popular Science," November, 1946]

Meaning "deep, continuous humming sound" is early 16c., apparently imitative (compare threnody). The verb in the sound sense is early 16c.; it often is the characteristic sound of airplane engines. Related: Droned; droning.

1. The minister's voice was a relentless drone.

部長不停地絮叨著.

來自柯林斯例句

2. the distant drone of traffic

遠處車輛往來發出的嗡嗡聲

來自《權威詞典》

3. The planes flew overhead with a low drone.

飛機發出低沉的轟鳴聲掠過頭頂.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. It's bad to drone.

混日子是不好的.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. It intervals the drone of an insect bored the air.

不時有隻昆蟲嗡嗡嗡地打破這陣寂靜.

來自辭典例句