teem
teem 英 [ti:m] 美 [tim]
vi. 大量出现；充满 vt. 倒出
进行时:teeming 过去式:teemed 过去分词:teemed 第三人称单数:teems 名词复数:teems
- If your neighborhood seems to teem with cats, that means there are a lot of cats running around. When something teems, it swarms or overflows with a large number of things.
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- vi. 大量出现；充满
- vt. 倒出
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1. The earth’s tropics teem with species. They’re far more biologically diverse than the cooler parts of the planet.
地球的热带地区物种繁多，这里的生物种类远比地球上较寒冷的地方多得多。
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2. God, said, ‘Let the waters teem with countless living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of heaven.
上帝说：“水中要有万种游鱼，地上要有无数飞鸟”于是上帝创造出种类繁多的大小鱼类及飞鸟。
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3. The earth's tropics teem with species.
地球上的热带地区物种繁多。
- 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 root *deuk- "to lead." 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.
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