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Swarm German N 英 例 Climb Middle Danish

单词 swarm
音标 [swɔ:m]
解释 n. (蜜蜂)一群;一群(人)
红宝书 【英】 n.(蜜蜂)一群,一群( 人) (a great number of animate or inanimate things;throng)
【例】 a swarm of insects/swarms of sightseersswarm[swO:m]v.攀爬( 树)
【英】 v.攀爬(树) (to climb with the hands and feet;mount)
【例】 a swarm of insects / swarms of sightseers
字源 swarm (n.)
"cloud of bees or other insects," Old English swearm "swarm, multitude," from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Middle Low German swarm, Danish sværm "a swarm," Swedish svärm, Middle Dutch swerm, Old High German swaram, German Schwarm "swarm;" Old Norse svarmr "tumult"), by Watkins, etc., derived from PIE imitative root *swer- (2) "to buzz, whisper" (see susurration) on notion of humming sound, and thus probably originally of bees. But OED suggests possible connection with base of swerve and ground sense of "agitated, confused, or deflected motion." General sense "large, dense throng" is from early 15c.
swarm (v.1)
"to climb (a tree, pole, etc.) by clasping with the arms and legs alternately, to shin," 1540s, of uncertain origin. "Perh. orig. a sailor's word borrowed from the Continent, but no trace of the meaning has been discovered for phonetically corresponding words" [OED]. perhaps originally a sailors' word, of uncertain origin. Also recorded as swarve (16c.) and in Northern dialects swarble, swarmle. Related: Swarmed; swarming.
swarm (v.2)
"to leave a hive to start another," also "to gather in a swarm, crowd, or throng," late 14c., from swarm (n.). Compare Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme. Related: Swarmed; swarming.
不择手段背单词 n. (处于骚乱中成群出动的)一大批喧闹的人或动物(尤其是蜜蜂); v 成群移动
【记】a swarm of worms 一群虫子.
【参】swarm up(v 爬上)
趣味全助记 【记】音:塞 warm worm 挤塞在一起很暖和的worm 虫子,蜜蜂密密麻麻挤在一起爬

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