Drone

[drəʊn] or [dron]

解释:

(noun.) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.

(noun.) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone.

(noun.) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control.

(verb.) talk in a monotonous voice.

(verb.) make a monotonous low dull sound; 'The harmonium was droning on'.

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解释:

(v. i.) The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

(v. i.) One who lives on the labors of others; a lazy, idle fellow; a sluggard.

(v. i.) That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and the fifth.

(v. i.) A humming or deep murmuring sound.

(v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.

(n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.

(n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.

杰西整理

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Male honey-bee.[2]. Idler, sluggard, lounger, idle fellow, lazy fellow.[3]. Humming, humming noise.

v. n. [1]. Lounge, dawdle, waste time in trifles, live in idleness.[2]. Make a dull, humming sound.

v. a. Read monotonously.

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同义词及反义词：

[See BRAWL]

整理:玛丽斯

解释:

n. the male of the honey-bee: one who lives on the labour of others like the drone-bee: a lazy idle fellow.—adj. Dron′ish like a drone: lazy idle.—adv. Dron′ishly.—n. Dron′ishness.—adv. Dron′y.

v.i. to make a low humming sound.—n. the bass-pipe of a bagpipe.—n. Drone′-pipe a pipe producing a droning sound.

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