swarms

英 [swɔːmz]

美 [swɔːrmz]

n.  一大群(蜜蜂等昆虫); 一大群，一大批(向同方向移动的人)
v.  成群地来回移动; 成群地飞来飞去
swarm的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• (蜜蜂等昆虫的)一大群，一大窝
  Aswarm ofbees or other insects is a large group of them flying together.
• VERB (蜜蜂等)成群飞行
  When bees or other insectsswarm, they move or fly in a large group.
  1. A dark cloud of bees comes swarming out of the hive.
     黑压压的一大群蜜蜂从蜂巢中飞出来。
• VERB (人)成群地涌动，蜂拥
  When peopleswarmsomewhere, they move there quickly in a large group.
  1. People swarmed to the shops, buying up everything in sight.
     人们成群地涌向商店，见什么买什么。
• N-COUNT-COLL (快速移动的)人群
  Aswarm ofpeople is a large group of them moving about quickly.
  1. A swarm of people encircled the hotel...
     一大群人围住了这个酒店。
  2. Today at the crossing there were swarms of tourists taking photographs.
     今天在十字路口有大群的游客在拍照。
• VERB 挤满，聚集(来来往往的人)
  If a placeis swarming withpeople, it is full of people moving about in a busy way.
  1. Within minutes the area was swarming with officers who began searching a nearby wood.
     几分钟内很多警察就来到了这一地区，开始搜查附近的树林。

双语例句

• Imps mean swarms of little winged creatures that will overwhelm enemy forces.
  小鬼的出现，意味着大群有翅膀的小生物将会把敌人淹没。
• Today at the crossing there were swarms of tourists taking photographs.
  今天在十字路口有大群的游客在拍照。
• There were swarms of flies hovering around rotten bodies.
  大群苍蝇在腐烂的尸体上盘旋。
• They came to town in swarms.
  他们蜂拥来到城里。
• The swamp swarms with mosquitoes and other insects.
  沼泽地到处都有蚊子和小昆虫。
• Under the withering assault of the locust swarms, a quarter of west Africa's crops could vanish.
  在蝗虫群的毁灭性袭击下，西非农作物的4分之一可能完全消失。
• Scientists were stumped because migrating swarms normally come down to rest every night.
  科学家们困惑了，因为迁飞蝗群通常要每晚落地休息。
• But deploying it would mean releasing swarms of altered insects into the wild.
  但利用这项技术就意味着将大量的转基因昆虫释放到野外。
• If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of files on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of files, and even the ground where they are.
  你若不容我的百姓去，我要叫成群的苍蝇到你和你臣仆并你百姓的身上，进你的房屋，并且埃及人的房屋和他们所住的地都要满了成群的苍蝇。
• Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation.
  东半球的蝗虫，大规模行进并吃光大片的植被地区。