英语释义

1. any of numerous social or solitary winged hymenopterous insects (especially families Sphecidae and Vespidae) that usually have a slender smooth body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk, well-developed wings, biting mouthparts, and in the females and workers an often formidable sting, and that are largely carnivorous and often provision their nests with insects or spiders killed or paralyzed by stinging for their larvae to feed on — compare bee

2. any of various hymenopterous insects (such as a chalcid or ichneumon wasp) other than wasps with larvae that are parasitic on other arthropods

3. an American of Northern European and especially British ancestry and of Protestant background especially a member of the dominant and the most privileged class of people in the U.S.

4. a black-and-yellow flying insect that can sting

5. an American whose family originally came from northern Europe and especially Britain and who is considered to be part of the most powerful group in society

6. a winged insect related to the bee and ant that has a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and that in females and workers is capable of giving a very painful sting

7. any of numerous social or solitary winged insects (especially families Sphecidae and Vespidae) of the order Hymenoptera that usually have a slender smooth body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk, well-developed wings, biting mouthparts, and in the females and workers an often formidable sting

片语

Wasps Nest蜂窝谜案

wops胡蜂；黄蜂；移居美国的南欧黑肤人（尤指意大利人）（wop的复数形式）

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eurytomid wasps广肩小蜂

cuckoo wasps青蜂

Ichneumon Wasps姬蜂

Wasps Mating黄蜂在嘿咻

edible wasps食用胡蜂

pollinating wasps传粉小蜂

英汉例句

• box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off northern australia and throughout the indo-pacific.

  箱型水母，也被称为海黄蜂和海螫，主要生活在澳洲北部和整个印度太平洋的沿海水域。

• he and his colleague believe this ability later allowed for the crowded, highly organized and very social living habits of bees, wasps and ants.

  他和同事相信具有高度组织性社会习性的蜜蜂、黄蜂和蚂蚁也拥有这种能力。

• now a study in wasps supports and refines that theory: it seems that dominant individuals have larger brain regions responsible for higher-order cognitive processes.

  现在一项对黄蜂的研究支持并发展了这一理论：占优势个体负责高级认知加工过程的脑区似乎会更大。

• capable of injecting venom from the end of their sting even after they have died, it is a popular question faced by entomologists - what are wasps actually good for?

  即使死后也能从它们的针刺末端射出毒液，这是昆虫学家经常面对的问题——马蜂有什么实际好处？

• to find out how the combs are made, théraulaz and his colleagues supplied different coloured paper to the wasps for each stage of nest building.

  为查明蜂巢是如何建成的，特洛拉兹和同事为纸巢黄蜂筑巢的各个阶段準备了不同的彩纸以便观察它们是如何排列无数个六角形蜂巢。

• social insects are well-known for their willingness to die for their colonies; a number of bees wasps and ants succumb after their stings lodge in targets and break off.

  群居的昆虫是以自愿为他们的领地去死而着称的。一些种类的蜜蜂、大黄蜂和蚂蚁在它们的螫刺刺入目标并折断之后，它们就会万念俱灰。

• wasps were one of the species to benefit - they had been struggling after two previous wet summers.

  黄蜂是其中的受益者之一——它们已经遭受连续两个潮湿夏季的折磨。

• wasps usually have a slender, shiny body but they can often look like honeybees.

  黄蜂体型细长，像蜜蜂一样身体发亮。

• still, the intruder may have a positive role: it helps keep the pollinating wasps from settling too long in flowers.this respite gives the blooms extra time to produce seeds.

  黄蜂杀手的存在也有一定的积极意义：它使得传粉黄蜂不至于在花朵上停留太长时间，好让花朵有时间长成种子。

• unlike honeybees, when wasps sting their victim they do not lose their stinger, allowing them to sting their victim repeatedly.

  与蜜蜂不同的是，当黄蜂螫伤受害者时，还要反复不断地攻击。

• the wasps that created these shapes burrowed near dinosaur nests, and are very similar to modern-day wasps.

  在恐龙巢穴旁挖地筑造出这些蜂巢的黄蜂跟现在的黄蜂非常相似。

• the researchers found that the so-called mushroom bodies, the lobes that underlie learning and memory in insects, were larger in dominant wasps than in their subordinate peers.

  研究人员发现，占优势地位黄蜂的蘑菇体要比从属黄蜂的蘑菇体大，而蘑菇体正是负责昆虫学习和记忆的脑结构。

• in a separate experiment, the team collected and examined wild bumblebees and wasps and discovered molecular evidence of viruses that can infect honeybees.

  在研究小组另一项试验中收集的野生蜜蜂和黄蜂中发现的病毒，可能会成为蜜蜂感染病毒的证据。

• these wasps live in a cloud forest in costa rica.

  这类黄蜂居住在哥斯达黎加的雾林中。

• a busy group of sand wasps decided to build a nest in our cabana, and i watched with mild interest until they started defending their new home.

  一群忙碌的沙黄蜂决定在我们的小屋筑巢，我饶有兴趣地观察着，直到它们开始保卫新家园。