drone
意味
- (特にミツバチの)雄バチ
- (他人の労働で生活する)怠け者,ごくつぶし
- 〈ハチ・飛行機などが〉ブンブンと音を立てる
- 単調な調子で話をする
- 〈人が〉…を単調な調子で(ものうげに)言う《+名+out,+名》
- (ハチなどの)ブンブンうなる音,低い単調な音
例文
Well, unmanned drones likely lack style, right.
無人機じゃ味気ないだろ。
She droned on for hours about her family history.
彼女は数時間も彼女の家の歴史の話をくどくどしゃべった。
I want to buy a drone, but my parents won't let me.
ドローンを買いたいんだけど親が買わせてくれない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English drane, dron, drone, from Old English drān, drǣn, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drenô, *drēnuz (“drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, drone, hornet”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droane (“drone”), Dutch dar (“drone”), German Drohne (“drone”), Limburgish dreen, Droon (“drone”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk drone (“drone”), Swedish drönare (“drone”); also Belarusian тру́цень (trúcjenʹ, “drone”), Bulgarian търтей (tărtej, “drone”), Czech trubec (“drone”), Macedonian трут (trut, “drone”), Polish trąd, trut, truteń (“drone”), Russian and Ukrainian тру́тень (trútenʹ, “drone”), Serbo-Croatian тру̑т, trȗt (“drone…