swarming
群がる
解説 Definition
swarming は swarm(群がる、群れをなして動く)の現在分詞・動名詞です。虫や人などが一か所に大量に集まっている様子を表します。
Swarming is the present-participle or gerund form of swarm. It describes insects, people, or other numerous moving things gathering densely around a place, or a place being crowded and active with large numbers of them.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形は swarm「群がる」で、語末にそのまま -ing を付けた形です。蜂の大群が一斉に動く原義的な場面から、人がどっと押し寄せる様子にも広がりました。swarm around a tree は「木の周りに群がる」、be swarming with shoppers は「買い物客であふれている」という定番の型で覚えます。
Connect swarming with the base verb swarm and first picture many bees moving together around a tree. The form is regular: swarm plus -ing. From insects, the image extends naturally to crowds of people arriving or moving densely in one place. Learn two common patterns: bees swarming around something, and a place swarming with people. The first focuses on what the crowd is doing; the second describes a location as extremely crowded, as in a market swarming with shoppers.
例文
Bees were swarming around the tree.
蜂がその木の周りに群がっていました。
Fans were swarming outside the theater.
ファンが劇場の外に押し寄せていました。
The market was swarming with shoppers before the holiday.
祝日前の市場は買い物客でごった返していました。
swarming の類義語・関連語
swarming の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語「swarm(大群)」に由来し、もともとハチの密集した動きを指しました。接尾辞「-ing」が動作の進行を表し、ハチが大挙して飛び交う様子から「人や物がどっと集まる」意味に派生しました。同語根に基本形の「swarm」があります。
Swarm comes from Old English swearm, a noun referring especially to a moving mass or colony of bees. English later developed the corresponding verb for moving or gathering in a dense crowd. Swarming is formed by adding -ing to swarm and can function as a present participle or gerund. Its figurative use for crowds preserves the visual image of numerous insects moving closely together.
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