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单词 worker bee
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worker bee
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kə ˌbiː/us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ ˌbiː/
(alsoworker)
afemalebeethat cannotproduceyoungbutcollectsfoodfor the otherbeesthat itliveswith:
工蜂
Largercolonieswith more workerbeesand theabilitytostoremorehoneysurvived.较大的蜂群有更多的工蜂，有能力储存更多的蜂蜜，从而得以生存下来。
A workerbeelivesfor about sixweeks.一只工蜂的寿命约为六个星期。
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apersonwhoworksvery hard but who does not have a highposition:
勤勤恳恳的普通职工
For much of hislifehe hasbuiltacareeras a workerbeeinbusinessdealsarrangedbyothers.他的一生，很多时候都是在勤勤恳恳地履行别人签下的商务交易。
People didn'tknowwhether I was a workerbeeor amanager.别人不清楚我是基层跑腿的还是经管人员。
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  • Workerbeeshave astingertodefendthehive, but they areunlikelyto use itunlessprovoked.
  • Workerbeesin thecorporateworldknowthat the Human Resourcesdepartmentis not really ontheirside.
  • Henotedthattrucksare the workerbeesof theeconomy.
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(Definition ofworker beefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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worker bee
Theworkerbeehatching out of her cell immediately starts generalizing in accord with shepard's law, in each and every task that she undertakes in her life.
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The life of aworkerbeeis very short and very sensitive to changes in the environment.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The life of aworkerbeeis very short - around six weeks - and very sensitive to environmental changes.
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Aworkerbeevibrates its body dorsoventrally while holding another honey bee with its front legs.
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The protein source needed for rearing oneworkerbeefrom larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen.
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Aworkerbeereturns to the hive and signals to other workers the range and direction relative to the sun of the food source by means of a waggle dance.
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The practice is to import them without the worker bees.
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I throw overboard the idea of education being designed to turn out busy and useful little worker bees.
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The result is that the worker bees die off.
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Indeed, bees do communicate in order to recruit other worker bees to forage in the same area they found flowers.
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Worker bees in the cleaning phase will perform this cleaning.
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The female worker bees are most strongly afflicted, less so the drones.
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An average colony consists of about 100 to 200 worker bees.
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Tunneling through honeycombs will not only provide food, but also protect the larvae from the defending worker bees.
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If successful, this piping seems to have a calming and harmonizing effect on the worker bees.
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