• vi. 群居；入蜂房；生活在蜂房中
• n. 蜂房，蜂巢；热闹的场所；熙攘喧闹的人群
• vt. 入蜂箱；贮备

来自古英语huf,蜂箱，来自PIE*keup,容器，箱子，词源同cooper,hove,cup.

hive

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.

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.

斯图尔特·坦纳希尔的小屋是个名副其实的摄影创意中心。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The hive is made of wood.

这蜂箱是用木材做的.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The bees were humming around the hive.

蜜蜂在蜂箱周围嗡嗡地叫.

来自《简明英汉词典》