英语释义
1. a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere
2. a colony of honeybees settled in a hive
3. a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usually in motion throng
swarms of sightseers a swarm of locusts a swarm of meteors
4. a number of similar geological features or phenomena close together in space or time
a swarm of dikes an earthquake swarm
5. to form and depart from a hive in a swarm
6. to move or assemble in a crowd throng
7. to hover about in the manner of a bee in a swarm
8. to contain a swarm teem
swarming with bugs
9. to fill with a swarm
10. to beset or surround in a swarm
players swarming the quarterback
11. to climb with the hands and feet specifically shin
swarm up a pole
12. to climb up mount
13. a very large number of insects moving together
14. a large number of bees that leave a hive together to form a new colony elsewhere
15. a large number grouped together and usually in motion
a swarm of mosquitoes a swarm of tourists
16. to form a swarm and leave the hive
swarming bees
17. to move or gather in a large number
Shoppers swarmed into the stores.
18. to be filled with a great number teem
“A-a-are there really ghosts in the attic?” … “It's just swarming with all sorts of ghosts …”
— Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking