IELTS TEM8
外刊例句
- Airport bookshops teem with guides that promise to teach executives the secrets of success.
机场书店里到处是号称能向高管们传授成功秘诀的指南。
——《经济学人》 - “This conference must not be viewed by the teeming masses of the world as a universal social charter seeking to impose adultery, abortion, sex education and other such matters on individuals, societies and religions, which have their own social ethos,” she said.
“一定不能让全世界的广大民众以为,这次会议提出的是一份举世通行的社会宪章,旨在将通奸、堕胎、性教育等等事务强加于个人、社会和宗教,毕竟大家的社会风气都各有不同,”她说。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] be full of or swarming with
[动词] 充满或挤满
深入解读
Teem 这个单词比较好记,它与 meet 正好对称,就像小站之前推的 loot 与 tool 一样(参见:同音异义 | Loot & Lute)。
Teem 又和小站之前发过的 founder 一样,是一个同形异义词(参见:熟词僻义 | founder 有风险,创业需谨慎)。一是源于古英语 teman/tieman (孕育、生出、产生、传播),常接 with 构成 teem with something 表示“充满、充足、多产”,多指四处移动的人或动物,比如:
- 这条河多产鱼。
This river teems with fish. - 这个地区游人如织。
This area is teeming with tourists. - 这篇文章错误百出。
This article teems with blunders. (参见:小词详解 | blunder)
二是源自古挪威语 toema (清空),现在主要表示“雨、水等倾注、倾泻”,也可以表示“把钢水等注入模具”,比如:
- 大雨如注。
It was teeming with rain. - 把熔化了的金属注入模子
teem molten metal into a mould
权威用例
雄安新区画卷徐徐铺展,天津港蓬勃兴盛,北京城市副中心生机勃发,内蒙古大草原壮美亮丽,河西走廊穿越千年、历久弥新,九曲黄河天高水阔、雄浑安澜,黄浦江两岸物阜民丰、流光溢彩……祖国各地一派欣欣向荣的景象。
Construction of Xiongan New Area is progressing, Tianjin Port is booming, Beijing's sub-center is thriving, grasslands in Inner Mongolia are splendid, the Hexi Corridor, after thousands of years, is teeming with new life.
出自习近平主席2020年新年贺词。
同近义词
- brim: be full to the point of overflowing
- swarm: (of a place) be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things)
- alive: swarming or teeming with