Droning

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drone

校对:诺琳

• 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.
• The others must have crossed farther up the range and when the droning was gone they went out of the cave into the open. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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