hive: [OE] Hive comes ultimately from Indo- European *keup-, which denoted ‘round container, bowl’ and also produced Greek kúpellon ‘drinking vessel’, Latin cūpa ‘barrel’ (source of English coop, cooper, and cupola), and its post-classical offshoot cuppa (whence English cup). (A variant of the Indo-European base was the source of English head.) The Germanic descendant of *keup- was *khūf-, from which came Old Norse húfr ‘ship’s hull’ and English hive. => coop, cooper, cupola, cup, head
hive (n.)
Old English hyf "beehive," from Proto-Germanic *hufiz (cognates: Old Norse hufr "hull of a ship"), from PIE *keup- "round container, bowl" (cognates: Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kypellon "cup," Latin cupa "tub, cask, vat"). Figurative sense of "swarming, busy place" is from 1630s. As a verb, of bees, etc., "to form themselves into a hive," c. 1400; "to put bees in a hive," mid-15c.
双语例句
1. A dark cloud of bees comes swarming out of the hive.
黑压压的一大群蜜蜂从蜂巢中飞出来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Klockner plans to hive off its loss-making steel businesses.
克劳克纳公司计划出售其亏损的钢铁业务。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Stuart Tannahill'sshed is a veritable hive of photographic creativity.
