Word of the Day：July 3, 2022
teem
充满，富于
verb /TEEM/ [tim]
What It Means
To teem with something is to be full of that thing, or to have much of that thing inside.
To teem with something 指填满了那个事物，或者里面有很多那个东西。
TEEM in Context
"Emily Wells' orchestral pop teems with grandly despairing gestures—synth tones as thick and black as crude oil, woodwinds like fluttering wings in the upper reaches of a condemned building." — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2022
“艾米莉·威尔斯的管弦乐的流行充满了令人绝望的音色——合成音色像石油一样厚重和黝黑，木管乐器就像一座废弃建筑的上摆动着不安的翅膀。”
The students' minds were teeming with ideas.
学生们的脑海里充满了各种想法。
Did You Know?
Teem and team are not just homophones, they are also etymological kin. Teem comes from Old English tīman or tǣman, which originally meant "to bring forth offspring" or "to give birth to.” That word is related to the ancestor of team, the Old English noun tēam, meaning "offspring, lineage, or group of draft animals." Team can still be used to refer to a brood of young animals, especially pigs or ducks, but both teem and team have otherwise largely left their offspring-related senses behind.
Teem 和 team 不仅仅是同音异义词，而且它们在词源上也同源。Teem 来自古英语tīman 或 tǣman，最初的意思是“to bring forth offspring「繁衍后代」”或“to give birth to「生育」”。这个词与 team 的祖先有关，古英语名词 tēam，意思是“ offspring「后代」、lineage「世系、血统」或 group of draft animals「牲口」”。Team 现在还可以用来指一群幼年的动物，尤其是猪或鸭， 在其他方面 teem 和 Team 基本上都抛弃了与后代有关联的含义。
Name That Synonym
Unscramble the letters to find a synonym of teem: dbuona.
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