swarm

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n. 群, 大群, 蜂群, 分蜂群 vi. 分群, 群集, 聚集一块, 云集, 攀 vt. 挤满, 爬, 攀

发音

US /swɔɹm/
UK /swɔːm/

词形变化

swarms 复数 swarms swarmed swarmeth swarming swarms 三单 swarming 现在分词 swarmed 过去式 swarmed 过去分词

别名

swarme

教材释义与例句

名词

蜂群；一大群

动词

挤满；成群浮游；云集

动词

挤满；爬

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

    群

  2. 2.

    A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.

    a swarm of meteorites

  3. 3.

    A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

    计算机 工程 数学
  4. 4.

    A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.

    地质
v.
  1. 1.

    To move as a swarm.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

    翃

    蜂拥

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To fill a place as a swarm.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.

  6. 6.

    To breed multitudes.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

drove cloud horde

上位词 3

group crowd grouping

下位词 2

plague infestation

部分词 1

insect
动词

同义词 4

pour stream teem pullulate

上位词 5

crowd buzz hum seethe crowd together

下位词 4

crawl spill over pour out spill out

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”). The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.

来源：wiktionary