| 单词 | teem |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [ti:m] |
| 解释 | v. 充满;到处都是;v. 下倾盆大雨 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v.充满(abound);到处都是(to be present in large quantity) 【例】 This river teems with fish./It was teeming down and we all got soaked up. |
| 字源 | teem (v.1) "abound, swarm, be prolific," Old English teman (Mercian), tieman (West Saxon) "beget, give birth to, bring forth, produce, propagate," from Proto-Germanic *tau(h)mjan (denominative), from PIE *deuk- "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Related to team (n.) in its now-obsolete Old English sense of "family, brood of young animals." The meaning "abound, swarm" is first recorded 1590s, on the notion of "be full of as if ready to give birth." Related: Teemed; teeming. teem (v.2) "to flow copiously," early 14c., "to empty out" (transitive), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse toema "to empty," from tomr "empty," cognate with Old English tom (adj.) "empty, free from." The original notion is of "to empty a vessel," thus "to pour out." Intransitive sense of "to pour, flow, stream" is from 1828. Related: Teemed; teeming. |
| 不择手段背单词 | v. 充满; 到处都是 【记】team里面teem着人们. |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】tee茶 + m 音:沫,茶沫,茶杯水充满了,茶沫溢出,有讲究,倒的第一杯茶不喝,倒空,泼掉;源自team 队,组,一群,一组里有很多人; |
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