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LESSON 6 Bees
第六課 蜜蜂
Look at that bee on the flower. See how it shakes its wings, and works with its little feet. Ah! it is off to another flower. It is working again!
看看在那花兒上的蜜蜂。觀察它是怎樣揮動翅膀的，怎樣辛勤勞作的。啊！它又去到了另一朵花兒。它又開始工作了。
Now it is off to another! How busy it is! It does not rest a minute in one place. It seems to have a great deal of work to do, and to be in haste to get it done.
現在，它去向了另一朵！它是有多忙啊！它都不會在任何一個地方停留休息。它似乎有很多工作要做，它需要趕緊完成。
Now let us go to the other end of the garden.
現在，讓我們去往花園的另一邊。
Do you see those little straw houses, which have no windows, and only a very small door?
你看見那些沒有窗戶，只有一個小小房門的稻草屋了嗎？
They are the houses in which the bees live, and are called hives.
他們是蜜蜂們居住的房子，他們叫蜂房。
A great many bees live in each hive. See how many are going in!
有成千上萬的蜜蜂居住在各自的蜂房中。看有多少進去了！
When spring comes, and the flowers begin to bloom, the bees come out of the hives very early in the morning. They fly away, and gather the sweet juice out of the flowers.
當春天來臨時，并且花兒都開放，蜜蜂們一大早就從蜂房中出來。他們到處飛，來收集花兒中甜美的花蜜。
The bee has a long tongue, which it thrusts(1) into the flower, to suck up the juice. Then it carries the juice to the hive, and makes it into honey.
蜜蜂有一個長長的舌頭，用來插進花里，吸收果汁。然后把花蜜帶回蜂房，然后做成蜂蜜。
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How many children do you see in the picture? What are they looking at? What are bees' houses called? What are they made of? Why do the bees go out early in spring? With what does the bee suck up the juice?
你能從圖片中看到幾個小孩？他們在看什么？蜜蜂的房子叫什么？是用什么做成的?蜜蜂為什么要一大早就出去？他們用什么來吸取花蜜？
When a bee sets out in the morning to look for honey, it does not visit(2) only the flowers near at hand. It goes very often more than a mile from its own hive; but it never loses its way.
當蜜蜂早上出發去尋找蜂蜜，他不只是光顧附近的花兒。他通常會飛往離他的巢一公里以上的地方，但他重來不會走丟。
When a shower of rain comes on, it takes shelter(3) in some little hole in a wall, or perhaps among the leaves of a tree, or inside a large flower. When the sun peeps out again, it mounts up into the air, and flies swiftly home.
當傾盆大雨悄然來臨，他會將墻上的小洞作為避難所，或者也許是躲在樹的葉子之間，或者是躲在大的花兒里。當天氣放晴，他飛上天空，并且迅速地飛回家中。
Bees gather not only honey, but also a kind of golden dust, from the inside of flowers. This dust they carry home on their hind legs. They use it to make bee-bread in the hive, as food for the young bees.
蜜蜂不止收集蜂蜜，而且還從花兒里收集一種金塵。他們將金塵放在后肢帶回家。他們將用金塵在蜂巢中制作蜂糧，作為小蜜蜂的食物。
This dust they also use to make wax; and with the wax they build a great many little cells,(4) all of the same shape, and all nicely fitted together.
他們也用這種金塵來做蜂蠟，他們用蜂蠟來建造許多小的蜂室，所有的都是一個形狀，但是全都完美的黏貼在一起。
They fill those cells with the sweet honey. The little waxen(5) cells filled with honey are called the honey comb.
他們用甜美的蜂蜜裝滿整個蜂室。這種小小的蠟制的堆滿蜂蜜的蜂室也叫做蜂巢。
QUESTIONS
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How far does a bee often go from its hive? What does it do when a shower comes on? What do bees gather besides the juice? What do they do with it? What else? What is honey comb?
一般蜜蜂回去離蜂房多遠的地方？當大雨來臨，他一般會怎么做？除了花蜜，他們還會收集什么？他們用它來做什么？其他的用途呢？什么是蜂巢？
One day a snail crawled into a bee-hive. The bees soon crowded about her in great wonder. They could not make out what the lady with the house on her back(6) could want.
一天一直蝸牛爬進了蜂巢。蜜蜂們很快就驚奇的圍住了她。他們不理解這只把房子背在背上的女士想要干什么。
As she was very much in the way, creeping along the street of their busy little town, they tried to turn her out. But it was all in vain. They could not get her to go out of the hive.
由于她沿著他們繁忙的小鎮的街道爬行，已經擋路了，他們決定試著將她驅逐出去。但是一切都是徒勞的。他們不能把她攆出蜂巢。
At last they fell upon another plan. They sealed up all the edges of her shell with wax, and so fixed it firmly to the bottom of the hive. The poor snail could not move. She soon died, and did not trouble them any more.
最后他們進行了另一個計劃。他們用蜂蠟封住了她殼的所有邊緣，并且死死地固定在了蜂巢的下邊。這只可憐的蝸牛不能動了。很快就死了，并且再也不能給他們造成麻煩了。
QUESTIONS
問題
What one day got into a hive? What did the bees try to do? What did they do when they failed? And what then?
有一天什么進了蜂巢？這些蜜蜂試著做什么?當他們失敗了，他們做了什么？然后呢？
