例文・使い方で印象づける「drone」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...A “dog-in-the-manger”man, who can improve his town, his church, hisneighborhood, and does not, is a drone in life’shive and deserves no success... 
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...It was as if some treble stop had been opened in a great organ, asagainst the bass drone of the cataract...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... The drone of the reader hushed...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...She heard neither the drone of the spellers nor did she hear Miss Taylor say, "Zora!" She heard and saw none of this...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Then came the long drone and sing-song of the preacher with its sharp wilder climaxes and the answering "amens" and screams of the worshippers...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Once in awhile I changemy diet and do snap up a bee!but it is always a drone, not ahoney-bee...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Colour Photography, Vol II. No. 4, October, 1897」
...More than once, in the firmpersuasion of finding royal nymphs, we have opened the cells after theywere sealed, yet the nymph of a drone always appeared...
Francis Huber Anonymous 「New observations on the natural history of bees」
...Of insect life one hearslittle but the mellow drone of the bumblebee,the noontide chirp of the cricket,and the husky rustle of the dragonfly'sgauzy wing...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...Eventhe drone of the drowsy beetle, swingingover the ripples of the shadowed stream orfrom tuft to tuft of grass beside the woodlandpath, had ceased...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...Now I should as soon say a wasp reasonedbecause a stingless drone, or male, when youcapture him, will make all the motions with itsbody, curving and thrusting, that its sting-equippedfellows do...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...The honey-beehas its enemies; the toads and tree-frogs feed uponit, and the kingbird captures the slow drone...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...The drone of the disintegrators, hitherto muffled by the earththey bit into, rose to a hollow scream...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...She spoke to him, but he could not understand her for the drone in hisears, and when he spoke to her it was the same...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...Its body, with amembrane sac of eggs, was now as large as his head; its wide-spreadtransparent wings were beating with a reverberating drone...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...The drone and buzz of its fright sounded over the chaosof noise...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...was about tobe offered as a sacrifice to some hideous, pagan god? Nonsense! He'dwake up in a minute and hear the drone of a ship on the line...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...There was no sensation of movement in that hermeticallysealed flyer, and, after the first few moments, the steady drone of therocket motor failed to register on my senses...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930」
...That diabolical machine of Tom's wasstill operating, the drone of its motors being the only sound in thelaboratory as the inventor closed his mouth grimly and made adesperate effort to raise his head...
Harl Vincent 「Wanderer of Infinity」
...From the distance came a dull drone of soundwhich brought him to his feet with a start...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「The Solar Magnet」
...Only a few years ago, every shearing shed had at least oneminstrel who could drone out the refrain of a shearing song—...
A. B. Paterson 「The Old Bush Songs」
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