drove
意味
- driveの過去形
- (群れをなして動く)家畜の群れ
- 大群衆,(特に)ぞろぞろと移動する人人の群れ
例文
News of her son's death in battle drove her mad.
彼女の息子の戦死の知らせに彼女は気が狂った。
We drove too fast to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
私たちはあまりにも速く走ったので美しい景色を味わう事も出来ないくらいだった。
They drove for ten or fifteen minutes in silence.
彼らは10〜15分、黙ったまま車を走らせた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English drāf (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draibō (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.