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droning

/drohn/US // droʊn //UK // (drəʊn) //

滔滔不绝,嗡嗡声,絮絮叨叨的,滔滔不绝的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
    • : an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight: the GPS of a U.S. spy drone. any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely: a radio-controlled drone.
    • : a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer.
    • : a drudge.

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Examples

  • You didn’t flee the drone of weed whackers and leaf blowers just to hear the drone of generators powering your neighbor’s TV so he can watch a marathon of The Office.

  • The solar autonomous drone made its first flight, and we expect several flights next year.

  • Armed with a business model that involved using sensors and drones to monitor every stage of the production process, he and two friends entered a pitch competition.

  • In July, it launched a rover called Perseverance to Mars that’s equipped with a small helicopter drone.

  • The pandemic has accelerated a variety of experiments and commercials trial to use drones for deliveries, crop monitoring, firefighting, and a thousand more jobs beyond wowing us by spelling out presidents’ names with LED lights.

  • When I got back at the 17-minute mark, Bibi was still droning on about Iran.

  • But it was far more than a mere droning on about techniques and hidden luxuries.

  • He stopped his droning speeches and adopted a feisty, homey style answering questions on the tours.

  • Sort of a double life, like this Bob character you were droning on about earlier.

  • Ever asked an academic about their research only to be subjected to 20 minutes of nonsensical droning?

  • While they exchanged casual greetings, Braceway lit a cigarette and spun the match, with a droning sound, far out from the porch.

  • Who were these people who strolled among the droning bees of the sandhills or pushed out from the shore in boats?

  • Ever since we had been at the Hotel Bellevue, we were unconsciously aware of curious droning sounds.

  • Silence, except for the droning of the insects and the distant rushing of the river.

  • There had been none of them about before, surely, and now their maddening, everlasting droning filled the ear.