Fine sayings! but the truth seems to be after all, that the Pyramids are quite of this world; that they were piled up into the air for the realisation of some kingly crotchets about immortality, some priestly longing for burial fees; and that as for the building, they were built like coral rocks by swarms of insects - by swarms of poor Egyptians, who were not only the abject tools and slaves of power, but who also ate onions for the reward of their immortal labours! * The Pyramids are quite of this world.英文原著 · 《Eothen》
A swarm, a swarm? Spite of the devil, how they sting my heart! How long hast thou been coming hither, Cob?英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
another cloud?" asked Ferguson. "Yes, and a famous one," replied Kennedy. "I never saw the like of it," added Joe. "I breathe freely again!" said the doctor, laying down his spy-glass. "That's not a cloud!" "Not a cloud?" queried Joe, with surprise. "No; it is a swarm." "Eh?" "A swarm of grasshoppers!" "That? Grasshoppers!" "Myriads of grasshoppers, that are going to sweep over this country like a water-spout; and woe to it! for, should these insects alight, it will be laid waste." "That would be a sight worth beholding!" "Wait a little, Joe.英文原著 · 《Five Weeks in a Balloon》
There were other mothers and other little girls with dolls on their backs in the street, too. They were all going to one place,- -the Doll Shop! Each little girl had some money to buy a new doll. Such chattering and laughing and talking you never heard! And such gay butterfly little dresses you never saw! nor such happy smiling faces, either. At the Doll Shop there were rows and rows of dolls, and swarms and swarms of little girls looking at them. Take saw a roly-poly baby doll, with a funny tuft of black hair on his head.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
And after a day of heaven like this, like Lorna Doone's lover,--ay, and like every other lover, I suppose,--I go to sleep, and the roof above me swarms with angels, having Kitty under it!英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
Round about where I live, for instance, two changes are taking place which really affect the land and all things that live on it, whether for good or evil. The first is that the urban civilisation (or whatever it is) is advancing; that the clerks come out in black swarms and the villas advance in red battalions. The other is that the vast estates into which England has long been divided are passing out of the hands of the English gentry into the hands of men who are always upstarts and often actually foreigners.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Desperate Housewives Season 04 Episode 04 there were a lot of things bob hunter disliked about living in the city, and the thing he hated most were the pests-- the rats that lurked in the alleys... the flies that swarmed the garge... the bugs that invaded his co-op.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
A swarm is a congregation of tens of thousands of volunteers A swarm is a congregation of tens of thousands of volunteers演讲 · 《I am a pirate ~ Rick Falkvinge》
Because this is actually required to succeed in a swarmwise scenario. Because this is actually required to succeed in a swarmwise scenario.演讲 · 《I am a pirate ~ Rick Falkvinge》