Drone

(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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• He must say he thought a drone the embodiment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The drone said unaffectedly, You will excuse me; I really cannot attend to the shop! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Pasionaria says 'Better to die on thy--' Joaqu韓 was saying to himself as the drone came nearer them. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Lord Raymond was never born to be a drone in the hive, and to find content in our pastoral life. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And yet the cottage was not deserted, for a low sound came to our ears--a kind of drone of misery and despair which was indescribably melancholy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He could still hear the receding drone. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Falsehoods and illusions ascend to take their place; the prodigal goes back into the country of the Lotophagi or drones, and openly dwells there. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They are the most squeezable persons and yield the largest amount of honey to the drones. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I said, here are more drones, of every sort and from every land. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And this is called the wealthy class, and the drones feed upon them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For an hour he droned away upon his violin, endeavouring to soothe his own ruffled spirits. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure, she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He looked round at me, in his dry, droning way, and said: The Indians will want their umbrellas, Mr. Betteredge, to-night! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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