Swarm

(noun.) a group of many things in the air or on the ground; 'a swarm of insects obscured the light'; 'clouds of blossoms'; 'it discharged a cloud of spores'.

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• The streets are generally about wide enough for one wagon, and how they do swarm with people! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He then perceived they were soldiers--thousands and tens of thousands; but they made no more noise than a swarm of midges on a summer evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In a little while a swarm of Spanish adventurers were exploring the new lands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The young swarm of Hypanians, who may be advanced one hour in life, approach his person with respect, and listen to his improving discourse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A howling swarm of beggars followed us--surrounded us --almost headed us off. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I spoke then readily: but a swarm of thoughts I had not anticipated nor invoked, rose dim at the words, making me sigh involuntarily. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Shortly after securing his first swarm of bees he commenced the manufacture of beehives in the same room where he had his jewelry business, using a large windmill for power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But most of them went toward the fire and then back toward the end and swarmed on the cool end and finally fell off into the fire. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Theresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress, while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• That is as true of all the minute creatures that swarmed and reproduced and died in the Arch?ozoic and Proterozoic seas, as it is of men to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• To pass through the lighted rooms was, of course, out of the question, since they swarmed with green Martian men and women. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Then he had what was left of it carried to his own house; but even here spies swarmed to try to learn something of his secret. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They swarmed close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A slave rushed into the dining hall to cry that a great concourse of people was swarming through the palace gates. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Except when game is swarming, hunting communities must not keep together in large bodies or they will starve. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And wilt moreover assure us the retreat of that scum of mankind who are swarming around the castle, contrary to God's peace and the king's? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• An hum, like that of ten thousand hives of swarming bees, stunned us as we entered the coffee-room. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And the world was fairly swarming with inventors! 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Surrounded on all sides by the Sultan's swarming battalions, the Christian Knights fought on without a hope for their lives. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We have sat through the long watches of the night while Edison brooded on the real solution of the swarming problems. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Lyell that in November, 1844, swarms of locusts visited the island of Madeira. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Look at the most vigorous species; by as much as it swarms in numbers, by so much will it tend to increase still further. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Here are no white men visible, yet swarms of humanity are all about us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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