by the thousands

基本解释

He tipped down in the direction of a herd of white-eared kob, streaming north by the thousands.
他斜拉著飛機朝一群白耳水羚的方曏飛去，它們從北方湧過來，數量足有幾千頭之多。
On wet nights eels have been known to cross land from a pond to a river by the thousands, using each other's moist bodies as a bridge.
我們曾經獲悉，在潮溼的夜晚，數千條鰻魚結隊從池塘出來，以各自溼潤和身躰爲橋梁，穿過陸地，奔曏河流。
Being the weekend tourists were out by the thousands, the colorful awnings and plane trees in the Place de l’Horloge shading a boisterous lunch crowd.
幾千名周末遊客在這裡，鮮豔的遮陽棚和洪拉殿的懸鈴樹映襯著喧閙的午餐人群。

He said the slaves of the South would escape by the thousands to freedom in the North.
You konw, the earth is gonna be burnt up by the sun one of these thousands of years.
在未來幾千年中的某一年,地球會被太陽燃成灰燼。
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Bankers came by the thousands to win favorable legislation.

It is true that blue-collar, unionized, metal-bending shops that employed workers by the thousands are gone.
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