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bee

/bee/US // bi //UK // (biː) //

蜂,蜜蜂,蜂类,蜂群

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and solitary species of several families, as the bumblebees, honeybees, etc.
    • : the common honeybee, Apis mellifera.
    • : a community social gathering in order to perform some task, engage in a contest, etc.: a sewing bee; a spelling bee; a husking bee.

Phrases

  • bee in one's bonnet
  • been around
  • been had
  • been there, done that
  • been to the wars
  • birds and the bees
  • busy as a beaver (bee)
  • make a beeline for
  • none of one's business (beeswax)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Experts suggest that at best, a workplace with no interaction between siloed groups—creative with finance, for example—can make people feel more like worker bees.

  • Then the team estimated what percentage of the yield native bees were adding — versus just doing what honeybees would have done anyway.

  • On hot days, for instance, it releases higher levels of thymol — amounts that might harm bees.

  • In such mass attacks, hornets bite the heads off adult bees.

  • Worker ants and bees can be nonreproductive members of social-colony “superorganisms.”

  • It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”

  • How could anyone think that their dislike of the Bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?

  • In an ad called “Spelling Bee,” a young child spells “Pryor” as “O-B-A-M-A,” to which the judge says, “Close enough.”

  • Certainly there are some Asians who have gleefully embraced the image of being the diligent worker bee.

  • If someone put a gun to your head and said, ‘Find the Bee Gees in 30 seconds,’ you could do it.

  • About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.

  • But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.

  • I am not quite certain that the bee does exactly do this; but it is just the kind of thing that the bee is likely to do.

  • When he first worked her she had the old bee-but boiler, 24 feet in diameter.

  • Such a "bee" as that was had never before buzzed on that mountain, even though this was by no means the first one known there.