【賓果11蜜蜂】
Busy bees: work, work, work!
(賓果兒童自然科學(xué)第一輯 Go wild)
#動(dòng)物#蟲(chóng)蟲(chóng)#蜜蜂。

11 忙碌的蜜蜂：干活，干活，干活！
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The chosen ones
The worker bees don’t stop.
They have lots of work to do.
They look at the chosen ones and whisper behind their backs.
‘Those bees just eat and drink and laze around!’
This whispering upsets the chosen ones.
But then their special day arrives.
The queen picks one lucky bee and they fly high together, singing, dancing, and mating.
‘Now the worker bees know how important I am!’ says the chosen one.
被選中的蜜蜂
工蜂從不停歇。
它們身兼重任。
它們看著被選中的那些蜜蜂，
在背后悄聲說(shuō)。
“那些蜜蜂只會(huì)吃喝玩樂(lè)！”
這番悄悄話讓這群蜜蜂感到沮喪。
但是它們的特殊日子來(lái)臨了。
蜂后選中一位幸運(yùn)的蜜蜂，
然后它倆一起高飛，
唱歌，舞蹈，結(jié)合在一起。
“現(xiàn)在工蜂們知道我有多重要了！”
這位被選中的幸運(yùn)兒說(shuō)道。
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Are you ready to find out about bees?
你準(zhǔn)備好了，來(lái)了解蜜蜂嗎？
Insect | Bee
昆蟲(chóng) | 蜜蜂
原作者：Nopineopi
編寫者：Lisa Regan
插畫師：Nam Hyeon-ju
標(biāo)題：Busy bees: work, work, work! 忙碌的蜜蜂：干活，干活，干活！
正文
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Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The bees fly from flower to flower, collecting nectar and pollen.
嗡，嗡，嗡！
蜜蜂們從這朵花飛到另一朵花，
采集花蜜和花粉。
注釋：nectar n. 花蜜 pollen n. 花粉
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Watch the bees in your garden to see how they fly.
If the flowers are a little way apart, the bees fly in a figure eight. It is very cool to watch.
在你的花園里觀察蜜蜂，看它們是怎么飛的。
如果花朵之間距離有些遠(yuǎn)，蜜蜂的飛行軌跡將呈現(xiàn)出“8”字形。看著非常好玩。
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If the flowers are close together, the bees just fly in a circle.
如果花朵之間距離比較近，蜜蜂會(huì)繞成一個(gè)圈飛。
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Bees take the pollen and nectar back to their hive.
They build rooms with six sides, called hexagons.
This is where they store their pollen and nectar.
蜜蜂把花粉和花蜜運(yùn)送回蜂窩。
它們?cè)诟C里建造由六條邊組成的小房間，稱作六邊形。
這里就是它們儲(chǔ)存花粉和花蜜的地方。
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Every bee has its own special jobs.
Worker bees are in charge of collecting the nectar,
looking after the young, building the hive, and doing the housework.
Some bees have only one job, and that is to mate with the queen.
每只蜜蜂都有自己特殊的工作。
工蜂負(fù)責(zé)采集花蜜，照顧幼蜂，建筑蜂窩，處理家務(wù)事。
有些蜜蜂僅有一項(xiàng)工作，那就是和蜂后結(jié)合在一起（繁衍后代）。
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The queen has laid her eggs and today they are finally hatching.
The worker bees stay busy, feeding these larvae.
蜂后產(chǎn)下了卵，今天終于孵化了。
工蜂忙著喂食這些幼蟲(chóng)。
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Now the worker bees build a little door over each larva’s room.
Once the rooms are sealed, the larvae go into cocoons.
現(xiàn)在工蜂在每只幼蟲(chóng)的房間上，都建一扇門。
這間房間一旦被密封起來(lái)，幼蟲(chóng)就變成了繭。
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When the larvae come out of their cocoons and open their little doors,
they are grown-up honey bees that can look after themselves.
當(dāng)幼蟲(chóng)破繭而出，打開(kāi)那扇小門，
它們已經(jīng)成為成熟的蜜蜂，可以自己照顧自己了。
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‘I will take care of the larvae.’ “我會(huì)照顧好幼蟲(chóng)。”
‘I have some housework to do.’ “我還有些家務(wù)活要做?！?‘I will build my own room.’ “我要建造我自己的房間。”
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‘Now it is our turn to go out and collect nectar and pollen!’
These bees all go buzzing out from their hive.
“現(xiàn)在輪到我們出去采集花蜜和花粉啦！”
這些蜜蜂嗡嗡地飛出了蜂窩。
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Once the bees are gone, the sneaky wasps arrive.
They want to break in to steal honey and eat the larvae.
蜜蜂離開(kāi)后，鬼鬼祟祟的黃蜂就來(lái)了。
它們想沖破蜂窩，偷蜂蜜，吃掉幼蟲(chóng)。
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Don’t worry,
some bees have stayed to guard the hive.
They charge bravely at the wasps, ready to fight.
A bee has a deadly stinger on its bottom, but once it uses its stinger, the bee will die.
不要擔(dān)心，有部分蜜蜂會(huì)留下來(lái)守護(hù)蜂窩。
它們勇敢地沖向黃蜂，準(zhǔn)備戰(zhàn)斗。
蜜蜂的屁股上有一根致命的蜇針，
可一旦它用了蜇針，就會(huì)死去。
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When the wasps have gone, the bees get ready to move house.
‘One queen can stay with this hive, while we go and build a new hive.’
當(dāng)黃蜂離開(kāi)后，蜜蜂們就準(zhǔn)備搬家。
“當(dāng)我們出去建新窩時(shí)，蜂后可以待在這個(gè)窩里?！?●23
The new queen starts as an egg. 新的蜂后從一顆卵開(kāi)始長(zhǎng)成。
It becomes a larva. 它變成幼蟲(chóng)。
Then it turns into a cocoon. 隨后變成一個(gè)繭。
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Now the new queen is grown and ready to help the hive.
此時(shí)，新的蜂后已經(jīng)成年，準(zhǔn)備好打理蜂窩。
Queen bees are different from all other bees.
You can tell it is a queen just from its egg.
蜂后和其他任何蜜蜂都不一樣。
從它還是卵的時(shí)候，你就能知道它是蜂后。
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Find out more!
了解更多！
Moving house
搬家
When a new queen is born, the old queen takes half of the worker bees to another home.
當(dāng)一只新的蜂后出生了，舊蜂后會(huì)帶著一半工蜂去往另外一個(gè)家。
The old queen will lead the workers to a temporary house near a tree trunk.
舊蜂后會(huì)帶領(lǐng)工蜂到一個(gè)臨時(shí)的蜂窩，一般在樹(shù)干附近。
They send out a scout to look for a good place to build their new hive.
它們派出一名偵察兵，尋找一塊好地方建造新蜂窩。
When the scout returns, it dances excitedly to tell the others where their new home will be.
當(dāng)偵察兵回來(lái)，它興奮地舞蹈著，告訴其它同伴它們的新家在哪。
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Bee Facts
蜜蜂二三事
Hexagonal homes
Bees can make a special substance from their body. It is called beeswax.
They use beeswax to build a honeycomb, full of six-sided rooms to store their honey.
六邊形的家
蜜蜂身上可以產(chǎn)出一種特殊的物質(zhì)，稱為蜂蠟。它們用蜂蠟建造蜂窩，全部的六邊形小房間都會(huì)用來(lái)儲(chǔ)存蜂蜜。
Bad guys
Several creatures are the enemies of bees, including spiders, birds, mantises, lizards, frogs, and hornets.
Of all of these, bees are the most afraid of hornets.
壞家伙
蜜蜂有幾種天敵，包括蜘蛛、鳥(niǎo)、螳螂、蜥蜴、青蛙、馬蜂等。其中，蜜蜂最怕的是馬蜂。
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Insect | Bee
昆蟲(chóng) | 蜜蜂
A special place
The beehive has one special room that is bigger than all the others.
It is the queen’s larva room. Here, the worker bees feed royal jelly to all of the queen’s larvae.
They grow big and strong as they will be queens one day.
特殊的地方
蜂窩里有個(gè)特殊一點(diǎn)的房間，比其它房間都要大，為蜂后產(chǎn)下的幼蟲(chóng)而準(zhǔn)備。
在這里，工蜂們用蜂王漿喂食蜂后的幼蟲(chóng)們。直至有一天，幼蟲(chóng)們長(zhǎng)大變壯，長(zhǎng)成一只只蜂后。
Collection time
A bee has a long tongue like a drinking straw to suck nectar from flowers.
As the bees drink, the pollen sticks to their hairy legs.
When they change flower, the pollen is passed from one to another, allowing the flowers to make seeds.
采集時(shí)間
蜜蜂長(zhǎng)著長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的口器，像一根吸管去吸食花朵中的花蜜。蜜蜂在吸食的時(shí)候，花粉會(huì)黏在它們毛茸茸的腿上。
當(dāng)它們飛向下一朵花時(shí)，花粉就這樣從一朵花傳遞到另一朵花上，使得花朵結(jié)出種子。