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horde

/hawrd, hohrd/US // hɔrd, hoʊrd //UK // (hɔːd) //

部落,成群结队,部族,部队

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
    • : a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
    • : any nomadic group.
    • : a moving pack or swarm of animals: A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    hord·ed, hord·ing.

    • : to gather in a horde: The prisoners horded together in the compound.

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Examples

  • It’s a perfect weeklong route for mountain lovers looking to escape the hordes visiting nearby parks and take in a bit of locals-only Washington.

  • Merck employed hordes of chemists to produce large quantities of chemical compounds for use in new drugs.

  • Its population explodes from about 5,000 to 250,000 when the vacation hordes descend.

  • Every title sticks to the original’s formula of some kind of item management, exploration and puzzle solving — and, crucially, fighting off zombie hordes.

  • It was always there, a shuffling horde of familiar faces dissolved into vague, generic sketches.

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • Here is a title that, in its prologue, tasks players with fighting a horde of angels on top of a moving jet.

  • Perhaps the threat of legal action has also played a role in curbing the horde of dyspeptic deviants.

  • Mrs. Clooney has been followed around Athens during a three-day visit by a horde of paparazzi that number into the hundreds.

  • At about 10 p.m., a horde of Hungarian police officers raided the bar, demanding that everybody show their identification.

  • In China the patriarch of a nomad horde became emperor of a nation retaining ancestor worship as its chief religious system.

  • The failure of this horde did not in the least check the proceedings of Sharp or Lauderdale or their like-minded colleagues.

  • In 1810 a threatened attack from a marauding horde of Kafirs was averted in answer to prayer.

  • It was this inspiration that changed a strong German horde into a people that loved culture, art and education.

  • He led the Auvergners to the left of the battle, where the Seljouk horde seemed thinnest.

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