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词汇 horde
释义 horde
noun
 often disapprovinguk /hɔːd/ us /hɔːrd/
[ C ]
a large group of people: (人)群
hordes ofHordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult.一群群学生骑着自行车鱼贯而行,弄得别人过马路都很困难。
 in their hordesUKinformal
in very great numbers: 一大批
When they heard the concert was free, they came in their hordes.当听说音乐会免费的时候,人们大批地涌来。
The new train service means that weekenders arrive in their hordes.
When the news broke, journalists descended on the village in their hordes.
He's one of our most popular tennis players and people come to watch him in their hordes.
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horde | American Dictionary


horde
noun[ C ]
us/hɔrd, hoʊrd/
a large group, esp. of people:
A horde of reporters waited on the lawn outside the White House.

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Ever-increasing hordes of minor officials, without experience or responsibility, are clogging the machine.
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One does not have to employ hordes of journalists or to spend much money to do that.
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Hordes of officials for the farmers to pay.
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We are not talking about hordes of people crossing the countryside at night.
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I see in it an instrument which will create the need for hours of fruitless work and hordes of fruitless workers.
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There have not had to be hordes working.
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I saw hordes of youths coming out of pubs, and presumably that is where they got their alcohol on this occasion.
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I hope that we will hear definitely about this, because nobody wants hordes of snoopers descending on his farm.
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There is no need to have hordes of people.
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I have often had occasion to admire the courage with which he stands up to the hordes who come after him on this subject.
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They called in the hordes to vote on that amendment.
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The result is that they are let out as we find them with hordes of people living in them under terrible conditions.
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Almost anything is better than aimlessly roaming the streets in hordes.
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If hordes of people are needed to track down potential defaulters, the cost of the operation will be substantially increased.
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They do not object to one or two, but when they come in hordes they can remove the entire fruit crop.
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