horde
horde 英 [hɔ:d] 美 [hɔrd]
n. 一大群，群；游牧部落
名词复数:hordes
- Use the word horde to describe a large crowd: “A horde of people followed Newman as he left the airport in Helsinki.”
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- n. 一大群，群；游牧部落
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1. Then we talked to the horde of press people who had gathered.
接着，我们对聚集成一群的媒体记者发表讲话。
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2. The last thing you want in the face of an advancing zombie horde is a blown fuel sensor.
在面对一大群向前进的僵尸时你最不想要的，就是一个融掉的燃料传感器吧。
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3. With the possible exception of a tiny minority of its members, the politicians of the Second Republic were a despicable horde.
除了少数几个可能的例外，第二共和国的官员们都是一群卑劣的家伙。
- horde (n.) 1550s, "tribe of Asiatic nomads living in tents," from West Turkic (compare Tatar urda "horde," Turkish ordu "camp, army"), borrowed into English via Polish, French, or Spanish. OED says the initial -h- seems to have been acquired in Polish. Transferred sense of "any uncivilized gang" is from 1610s. Related: Hordes.
- horde (v.) "to live or gather in hordes," 1821, from horde (n.). Related: Horded; hording.
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