英：[drəʊn]
美：[droʊn]
drone如何读
drone是什么意思
- n.雄蜂；游手好闲者；无人驾驶飞机
- n.嗡嗡声；单调的声音
- vi.嗡嗡叫；混日子
- vt.单调低沉地说
drone变形
复数:drones
第三人称单数:drones
现在分词:droning
过去式:droned
过去分词:droned
drone词根
词根：drone
adj.droning 声音低沉单调的；发嗡嗡声的
v.droning 发嗡嗡声；单调低沉地说；闲散度日；单调无聊地进行（drone的ing形式）
drone英英释义
noun (1)
a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen
At some point, usually around late spring or early summer in the Midwest, thousands of worker bees and drones—half or more of the colony's total population—may fly away with the old queen to find a new home.—Jim Doherty and Terry Domico
an uncrewed aircraft or vessel guided by remote control or onboard computers: such as
a small remotely-operated rotorcraft usually with a mounted camera Some particularly dramatic drone footage shows the lava field advancing on a neighborhood.—Eric Mack
We drifted past a man who was operating a quadcopter drone with a GoPro attached. It swooped over us and then receded upriver.—Nick Paumgarten
an uncrewed military aircraft or vessel Designed and built in the UK, Taranis is one of the biggest military drones on the battlefield, with a wingspan of almost 12 metres.—How It Works Magazine … waterborne drones are already being deployed by the Navy's 5th Fleet in the waters off the Middle East.—David Sharp Boeing is modifying the retired Lockheed Martin-built F-16s into target drones …—Flight International The CIA has used pilotless drone planes, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to carry out attacks in countries including Afghanistan and Pakistan.—Mark Thomas If a two-year trial is successful, the Navy might consider developing drone ships for other tasks, such as deactivating unexploded mines.—Kelsey Atherton and Sarah Fecht As the U.S. slashes budgets, the lethality and cost-effectiveness of drone strikes will likely make them an even more attractive option.—Carla Anne Robbins The military is developing these technologies to defend against drone attacks.—Iain Boyd
Armed drones contribute to the illusion that wars can be won on the cheap.—Sarah Kreps and Paul Lushenko
a person who is obliged to do menial work : drudge sense 1
a person whose work is routine and boring : drudge sense 2
one of many office drones
someone or something that lives on the labors of others : parasite
… a new Utopia in which robots … do all the work while human drones recline in pneumatic bliss.—John Diebold
verb
intransitive verb
to make a sustained deep murmuring, humming, or buzzing sound The air conditioner droned.
droning bees
to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone
droning on and on about his health
to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner
The afternoon droned on.
transitive verb
to utter or pronounce with a drone
to pass or spend in dull or monotonous activity or in idleness
droning the years away
noun (2)
a deep sustained or monotonous sound : hum
the drone of the motor
music an instrument or part of an instrument (such as one of the fixed-pitch pipes of a bagpipe) that sounds a continuous unvarying tone
music pedal point
drone词组
target drone目标靶机
drone词源中文解释
中古英语 drane, drone，意为“雄性蜜蜂”，源自古英语 dran, dræn，源自原始日耳曼语 *dran-（同源词还有中古荷兰语 drane； 古高地德语 treno； 德语 Drohne，源自中古低地德语 drone），可能是拟声词（比较立陶宛语 tranni，希腊语 thronax 的“蜜蜂王”）。1520年代引申为“懒汉，懒工人”（雄蜜蜂不产蜜）。1946年引申为“由遥控器控制的无人驾驶飞行器”。
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]
“无人机”这种无线电控制的飞行器有许多潜力，既可用于民用，也可用于军事。有一天，巨大的母船可能会引导载货飞机的舰队穿越大陆和海洋。长程无人机配备原子弹，可以由母船陪同飞往目标地点，实现完美打击。[《大众科学》1946年11月]
意为“深沉、持续的嗡嗡声”，始见于约1500年，显然是一种独立的拟声词（比较 threnody）。意为“风笛的低音管”始见于1590年代。
drone_体育行业词汇
遥控无人驾驶飞机
drone_昆虫学行业词汇
雄蜂
drone词源英文解释
Noun (1), Verb, and Noun (2) Middle English, from Old English drān; akin to Old High German treno drone, Greek thrēnos dirge
The first known use of drone was before the 12th century
drone儿童词典英英释义
droolverb
to water at the mouth
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth : drivel
droolverb
to water at the mouth
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth : drivel
drone1 of 3noun
a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) whose only function is to mate with the queen bee
a person who lives off the work of others
informal a person who does dull, menial, or hard work
an uncrewed aircraft or ship guided by remote control or by computers carried onboard
drone2 of 3verb
to make or speak with a continuous low humming sound droned on about himself
a plane droning overhead
drone3 of 3noun
one of the pipes on a bagpipe that sound fixed continuous tones
a deep monotonous sound : hum
drone1 of 3noun
a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) whose only function is to mate with the queen bee
a person who lives off the work of others
informal a person who does dull, menial, or hard work
an uncrewed aircraft or ship guided by remote control or by computers carried onboard
drone2 of 3verb
to make or speak with a continuous low humming sound droned on about himself
a plane droning overhead
drone3 of 3noun
one of the pipes on a bagpipe that sound fixed continuous tones
a deep monotonous sound : hum
drone1 of 3noun
a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) whose only function is to mate with the queen bee
a person who lives off the work of others
informal a person who does dull, menial, or hard work
an uncrewed aircraft or ship guided by remote control or by computers carried onboard
drone2 of 3verb
to make or speak with a continuous low humming sound droned on about himself
a plane droning overhead
drone3 of 3noun
one of the pipes on a bagpipe that sound fixed continuous tones
a deep monotonous sound : hum
drone 例句
1 “Butter and honey shall he eat,” Dad droned, low and monotone, weary from a long day hauling scrap.
2 A mosquito droned to the attack.
3 Alex rolls his eyes, suddenly imagining twirling around a ballroom while Henry drones sweet nothings about croquet and fox hunting in his ear.
4 Maybe this was what a new queen felt like before she launched herself into the air, the drones closing fast.
5 Then I add, “I forgive you for that more than I forgive you for the thing with the drone.”
6 The interminable length of train cars carries a miserably bowed drone across the rhythm of the tracks.
7 She was busy at the stove, presiding over a skillet of fried spinach with radishes, and could not hear me because of the drone of the exhaust fan and the fierce scrapes of her spatula.
8 Before blacking out from pain, Stockdale heard the drone of American planes above.
9 The red metal of the drone glints in the blazing sun; I shield my eyes from the light and stare at the mechanical spy as if it has eyes.
10 There were big electric fans droning in the windows to keep the birds cool, but it was just as hot as I remembered.
11 But these are not harmless collection drones, or rescue ones in search of a missing child.
12 Hob’s line pointed down what seemed to be a succession of glades, shady and murmuring places in which the wild thyme was droning with bees.
13 An aircraft droned overhead.
飞机在上空发出嗡嗡声.
14 Then he heard the draff, this time a long low sucking of air that grew gradually to a drone, then a roar.
15 Something droned in the distance, and our shambling column—so much smaller now than when we had begun our journey—slowed to look up.
16 The jury filed out and the courtroom began to drone with talk, a few people got up and moved about.
17 A minute later, the little drone comes rolling into my room, his half-moon eyes turned expectantly toward me.
18 The power-house drone of the refrigerator.
19 The Dancing Fan had been creeping up on Dad, a relentless Borg drone determined to assimilate us both, but as soon as he glanced at it, it stopped moving.
20 He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.
drone 同义词
3 持续音
4 懒人
sluggard player poke lug sleeper snail slug loon quitter idler lounger fiddle-faddle flaneur dawdle
5 嗡嗡叫
6 单调地说
10 风笛的低音管
12 偷懒
sluggish truant slothful shiftless lazily putter laziness mike wag scrimshank sugar soldier slack slug laze skulk gold-brick shirk lead swinging
14 寄生虫
parasite louse lounge lizard worm vermin scrounger sponger leech freeloader pagurid guest heel driftwood mooch bur cadger sponge helminth poler