核心畫面

One way to hold teeming is to picture a container that cannot hold what is inside it, and what is inside will not keep still. Too many to count, and all of them moving. That is why a crowded market is teeming and a full is not. Once you have that picture, the rain sense is the same picture with raindrops in it.

teeming 可以想成一個裝不下的容器。裡面的東西太多。而且那些東西還一直在動。所以夜市可以是 teeming。塞更多收起teeming 可以想成一個裝不下的容器。裡面的東西太多。而且那些東西還一直在動。所以夜市可以是 teeming。塞滿盤子的櫃子就不行,因為盤子不會動。這個畫面一抓住,另一個意思就很好懂。把畫面裡的東西換成雨滴,就是 teeming rain:雨多到數不清,而且全都在往下衝。

Two branches

滿到在動的地方和生物

這是這個字的主場:數量多,而且會動的是活的東西。

adjective · B2

Full of people, animals or other living things that are all moving about, so that the place looks packed and busy.

擠滿的;熙來攘往的

多到像滿出來的雨

同一個畫面換了內容物:數不清而且都在動的,這次是雨滴。這是用法上的延伸,不是另一個來源。

adjective · C1

Used about rain: coming down very hard and in very large amounts.

傾盆的(雨)