被趕著走的那一群，以及趕的動作
這一組直接就是核心畫面本身，沒有轉彎。一邊是路上的那群牲口，一邊是站在牠們後面的人。
noun · C1
A drove is a group of farm animals, such as cattle, sheep or pigs, that people are moving together from one place to another.
（趕著走的）一群牲口
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a mass of animals on a road, with people behind them keeping them moving. Nobody in that picture is choosing their own direction. They are being pushed forward together, as one body, towards somewhere else. Everything the word does can be traced back to that scene — the animals themselves, the person doing the pushing, and, much later, a crowd of people moving the same way at the same time.
可以想成這樣一個畫面：一條路上擠著一群牲口，後面有人趕著牠們往前走。畫面裡沒有誰在自己決定方向。牠們是被推著、整群一…更多收起
可以想成這樣一個畫面：一條路上擠著一群牲口，後面有人趕著牠們往前走。畫面裡沒有誰在自己決定方向。牠們是被推著、整群一起、往某個目的地移動。這個字後來的幾個意思，都能回到這個場景：被趕的那一群、趕的那個動作，以及更晚才出現的——一大批人同時往同一個方向湧去。From the word’s history
Old English drāf carried both halves of the picture at once: it meant the action of driving and also the drove or herd itself, and it came from drīfan, to drive. The past tense drove comes from the same drāf, used as the past of drīfan. So the verb form and the noun are two pieces of one old word.
古英文的 drāf 一個字同時裝著畫面的兩半：它既指「驅趕這個動作」，也指「被趕的那一群」，來源是動詞 drīfan（驅趕）。而過去式 drove 也是從同一個 drāf 來的，當時是 drīfan 的過去式。所以今天的動詞形和名詞，其實是同一個老字的兩塊。
Wiktionary entry for 'drove' (etymology text supplied in this evidence packet): noun from Middle English drove < Old English drāf 'action of driving; drove, herd' < Proto-Germanic *draibō; verb from Middle English drave/draf < Old English drāf, preterite of drīfan 'to drive'.
Three branches
人潮：畫面搬到人身上
把核心畫面裡的牛羊換成人，就是這一支。重點被保留下來的不是「被誰趕」，而是「一大批、同一個方向、同一段時間」。
noun · B2
Droves means very large numbers of people. It is used in the plural, and nearly always in the phrase in droves, when a lot of people arrive somewhere, leave somewhere, or do the same thing at about the same time.
成群結隊（一大群人）
drive 的過去式
這一支不是從名詞比喻出去的，而是同一個古字根的另外一半：動作那一半。古英文 drāf 既是名詞也是 drīfan 的過去式，今天的 drove 就同時扛著這兩個身分。
verb · A1
The past form of the verb drive. You use it for something that has already happened: someone controlled a car or other vehicle, took a person somewhere in one, or pushed a person, an animal or a thing into a place or into a state.
drive 的過去式
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
drovenoun詞源 1/dɹəʊv/
- 1
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
- 2
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
- in droves
- 3
A cattle drive, or a drive of another livestock animal (e.g. sheep).
- The boy hunters had arrived at the wood grove, far off from the wary drove of hares, who resumed foraging cautiously, as before.
- she and her companion got among a regular drove of hares
- 4
A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- 5
A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- 6
A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- 7
The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
droveverb詞源 2/dɹəʊv/
- 1
To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
- He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle.
- 2
To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。