英语词汇“teem”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

teem1

/tiːm

verb [no object] (teem with)

Be full of or swarming with: every garden is teeming with wildlife (as adjective teeming) she walked briskly through the teeming streets...

The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
The streets of Saigon teem with people, noises, and smells like no other city in Asia.
Today, the same streets teem with chic shops and restaurants, and many of the old factories have been converted into fancy apartments.

Synonyms

be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, be overflowing with, abound in, be swarming with, be bursting at the seams with;

be packed with, be crowded with, be thronged with, be crawling with, be overrun by, bristle with, seethe with, be thick with, be crammed with, be cram-full of, be choked with, be congested with

informal be jam-packed with, be chock-a-block with, be chock-full with, be lousy with

rare pullulate with

Origin

Old English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included 'give birth to', also 'be or become pregnant', giving rise to 'be full of' in the late 16th century.

team from Old English:
The original Anglo-Saxon meaning of team was ‘the bearing of children’. From there it became ‘a brood of young animals’, and then ‘a set of draught animals working together’, which gave us the modern idea of a group of people or set of sports players in the 16th century. In the sense ‘to be full of’ teem (Old English) is linked to team, but teem (Middle English) as in ‘teeming with rain’ is a different word altogether, which comes from Old Norse tómr ‘empty’—the original sense was ‘to drain liquid from’, the same image as in ‘its pouring with rain’.

Rhymes

teem2

/tiːm

verb [no object]

(Of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily: with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off...

So hard was the rain teeming down on Friday that play on the famous golf course was called off before 3pm.
The residents were piling up sodden carpets and furniture by the roadside, with the rain still teeming down.
I could have smashed the bottle on the concrete front doorstep, but the rain was teeming down and I would get wet again.

Synonyms

pour (down), pelt down, tip down, beat down, lash down, sheet down, come down in torrents/sheets, rain cats and dogs

informal be chucking it down

British informal bucket down, come down in buckets/bucketloads, come down in stair rods, tipple down

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse tœma 'to empty', from tómr 'empty'. The original sense was 'to empty', specifically 'to drain liquid from, pour liquid out'; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century.

单词	teem
释义	teem1 /tiːm / verb [no object] (teem with) Be full of or swarming with: every garden is teeming with wildlife (as adjective teeming) she walked briskly through the teeming streets... The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages. The streets of Saigon teem with people, noises, and smells like no other city in Asia. Today, the same streets teem with chic shops and restaurants, and many of the old factories have been converted into fancy apartments. Synonyms be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, be overflowing with, abound in, be swarming with, be bursting at the seams with; be packed with, be crowded with, be thronged with, be crawling with, be overrun by, bristle with, seethe with, be thick with, be crammed with, be cram-full of, be choked with, be congested with informal be jam-packed with, be chock-a-block with, be chock-full with, be lousy with rare pullulate with Origin Old English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team. The original senses included 'give birth to', also 'be or become pregnant', giving rise to 'be full of' in the late 16th century. team from Old English: The original Anglo-Saxon meaning of team was ‘the bearing of children’. From there it became ‘a brood of young animals’, and then ‘a set of draught animals working together’, which gave us the modern idea of a group of people or set of sports players in the 16th century. In the sense ‘to be full of’ teem (Old English) is linked to team, but teem (Middle English) as in ‘teeming with rain’ is a different word altogether, which comes from Old Norse tómr ‘empty’—the original sense was ‘to drain liquid from’, the same image as in ‘its pouring with rain’. Rhymes abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, theme, upstream teem2 /tiːm / verb [no object] (Of water, especially rain) pour down; fall heavily: with the rain teeming down* at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off... So hard was the rain teeming down on Friday that play on the famous golf course was called off before 3pm. The residents were piling up sodden carpets and furniture by the roadside, with the rain still teeming down. I could have smashed the bottle on the concrete front doorstep, but the rain was teeming down and I would get wet again. Synonyms pour (down), pelt down, tip down, beat down, lash down, sheet down, come down in torrents/sheets, rain cats and dogs informal* be chucking it down British informal bucket down, come down in buckets/bucketloads, come down in stair rods, tipple down Origin Middle English: from Old Norse tœma 'to empty', from tómr 'empty'. The original sense was 'to empty', specifically 'to drain liquid from, pour liquid out'; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th century.
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