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bevy ['bevi]

n. 一群

Look, there comes a bevy of ladies.
看，一群女人来了。
There came a bevy of youths and maidens .
那边来了一群男女青年。
A bevy of quails lit in the tress near our house.
一群鹌鹑停落在我家附近的树上。

bevy

[ noun ]

a large gathering of people of a particular type

<noun.group>

he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire

a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him

a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)

<noun.group>

we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks

Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl. {Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking
company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It. beva) a drink, beverage;
then, perh., a company in general, esp. of ladies; and last
applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See {Beverage}.]
1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons,
especially of ladies.

What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau.
& Fl.

2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd
of roes.

This time, however, instead of rich British employers for the sensitive, modest and penniless adventuress, we have a bevy of opulent Argentines speaking to one another in heavily accented English.
Connecticut's $182.1 million of various general obligation bonds drew a bevy of bidders, with a Citicorp Securities Markets Inc. group winning the deal.
The fast-growing computer maker stumbled this summer when it introduced a bevy of new products at the same time a new computerized information system sprouted problems.
The dividend omission was the latest sign of problems growing out of Intergroup's bevy of acquisitions.
Blink, and a bevy of waiters was at the table. One evening, at sundowner time, a black storm came galloping in from the Indian Ocean.
A plethora of pink, a bevy of birds _ a phalanx of flamingos.
Instead, a bevy of "couples, companions, co-stars and compadres" will present the awards.
Since the street was clogged, forming a single line was difficult, and untold thousands of people formed in a bevy of smaller lines in addition to the mega-line that made the Guinness tally.
And one of the most impressive parts of the collection when it opened was the bevy of plaster casts of European statuary sent over by the French government for the exposition.
Analysts cited a bevy of bearish signals, including improving crop conditions, forecasts for another week of scattered showers in the Midwest, lower cash soybean prices and increased farmer selling of soybeans.
Matchbox Toys' bevy of Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs and Beverly Johnson dolls may put a few worry wrinkles in 31-year-old Barbie's brow.
Beauvais said the Phoenix-based airline had lined up tentative outside financing and is prepared to bid $600 million to $700 million for the shuttle and a bevy of aircraft.
A bevy of positive developments, including an increase in General Motors' dividend, reinvigorated Wall Street today and sent stock prices broadly higher.

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