swarm是什么意思,swarm怎么用

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swarm

考研 TOEFL SAT TEM8


📰 外刊例句

The Ocean of Things aims to likewise wire up the high seas with swarms of floating, connected sensors. 同样,海基物联网的目标是用大量漂浮的、互联的传感器把海洋连接起来。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[noun] a large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones
[名词] 一大群或密集的一群昆虫,尤指会飞的昆虫


💡 深入解读

Swarm 一词比较好记,就是在熟词 warm 的前面加个 s 。其基本含义是作名词表示“一大群、一大窝”蜜蜂、蝗虫、苍蝇等昆虫,多用来指像离巢的蜂群那样一起移动的一大群昆虫,比如:野山羊在下面陡峭的山坡上咩咩地轻声叫着。但在远处,有一只死羊身上爬满了一群群的苍蝇。

From the steep slope below, the wild goats bleated

faintly. But in the distance, there was a dead sheep covered with swarms of flies.将这个概念用在人身上,则表示蜂拥的“一大群”人,强调人数众多、杂乱无章、不停移动,比如:

我们在尽力搞清楚为什么一大群人围住了这个酒店。

We're trying to fathom

out why a swarm of people encircled the hotel.当用作动词时, swarm 自然指蜜蜂等昆虫“成群结队地移动、飞来飞去”或形容人、动物等“蜂拥、涌动”,比如:

半岛上到处是旅游者熙来攘往。

Tourists were swarming all over the peninsula

.老主顾们成群地涌向这家商店,见什么买什么。Patrons

swarmed to the shop, buying up everything in sight.除此之外,还可以用

swarm with sb/sth这个短语动词来表示“挤满、到处是”来来往往的人或物,比如:

几分钟内很多警察就来到了这一地区,开始突击搜查附近的树林。

Within minutes the area was swarming with officers who began

swooping on a nearby wood.双语名著

When he passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and surrounded him like a

swarm of gnats.他从一个村庄经过时,那些衣服破烂的孩子们都欢天喜地跑到他身边,就象一群小飞虫似的围着他。

出自法国作家维克多·雨果的长篇小说《悲惨世界》(

Les Misérables,原意为“悲惨的人们”“可怜的人们”)。该小说是19世纪最著名的小说之一,故事的主线围绕主人公土伦苦刑犯冉·阿让(Jean Valjean)的个人经历,融进了法国的历史、革命、战争、道德哲学、法律、正义、宗教信仰等,多次被改编演绎成影视作品。

同近义词

throng: a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals

horde: If you describe a crowd of people as a horde, you mean that the crowd is very large and excited and, often, rather frightening or unpleasant

multitude: the mass of ordinary people without power or influence


🔍 同近义词

  • throng: a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals
  • horde: If you describe a crowd of people as a horde, you mean that the crowd is very large and excited and, often, rather frightening or unpleasant
  • multitude: the mass of ordinary people without power or influence
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