蚂蚁

他的勤奋与坚持表明他前世是只蚂蚁。

His industry and persistence suggest that he was an ant in a previous incarnation .

蚂蚁是一种群居昆虫。

The ant is a social insect .

蚂蚁围着那堆腐烂的食物跑来跑去。

Ants scurried around the pile of rotting food .

一大群蚂蚁浩浩荡荡地穿过小径。

An army of ants marched across the path .

厨房里到处是蚂蚁。

The kitchen was infested with ants .

厨房常常会遭到大批蚂蚁的进犯。

Every so often the kitchen would be invaded by ants .

从横梁上和裂缝里爬出来了一群群甲虫、蚂蚁和蜘蛛。

Out of beams and cracks came troops of beetles , ants and spiders .

蚂蚁从地下成群地钻出来，爬满了她的鞋子和双腿。

Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs .

蚂蚁间有明确的分工。

There is a clear division of labour in ants .

这棵死树根被蚂蚁唼了。

The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants .

蚂蚁储存食物以防冬令。

Ants store up food against the winter .

蚂蚁和苍蝇都是昆虫。

Ants and flies are insects .

他们用蚂蚁做实验。

They make experiments with ants .

他等着选举的结果，像热锅上的蚂蚁。

He was waiting for the results of the elections , restless as an ant on a hot pan .

梅里安注意到这些蚂蚁是如何把地下的叶子带给它们的幼蚁。

Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young .

梅里安关于巨型食鸟蜘蛛、用身体搭桥的蚂蚁以及其他细节的描绘是正确的。

Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders , ants building bridges with their bodies and other details .

她当时不可能知道这一点，蚂蚁使用树叶在地下种植菌类来喂养正在发育的幼蚁。

And she wouldn 't have known this at the time , but the ants use the leaves to farm fungi underground to feed their developing babies .

“美国有一夜之间就能把整棵树啃得像扫帚柄一样光秃秃的大蚂蚁，”她在描述中写道。

" In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night , " she wrote in the description .

这幅画中还包含了对蚂蚁的新颖描述，它吸引了欧洲观众，他们更关心的是展现在他们面前的奇异故事，而不是绘制者的性别。

The image , which also contained novel descriptions of ants , fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it .

世界上的蚂蚁数量十分庞大。

There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide .

事实上,说起战术,蚂蚁是所向无敌的。

In fact , when it comes to the art of war , ants have no equal .

对于体型如此之大的动物来说,蚂蚁取得了惊人的成功,这主要得益于它们出色的社交行为。

For animals their size , ants have been astonishingly successful , largely due to their wonderful social behavior .

一只蚂蚁的重量几乎可以忽略不计，但放在一起，它们的重量和全人类差不多。

Each individual ant hardly weigh anything , but put together they weigh roughly the same as all of mankind .

当蚂蚁找到食物时,它会产生一种信息素,这种信息素会直接引导其他蚂蚁找到食物。

When an ant finds food , it produces a pheromone that will lead others straight to where the food is .

当个体蚂蚁受到攻击或濒临死亡时,它会发出一个警报信息素,警告蚁群作为防御单位准备应对冲突。

When an individual ant comes under attack or is dying , it sends out an alarm pheromone to warn the colony to prepare for a conflict as a defense unit .

在我们使用声音和视觉进行交流的地方,蚂蚁主要依靠信息素,那是个体散发出来的化学物质,而蚂蚁的群体成员能闻到或品尝到它。

Where we use sound and sight to communicate , ants depend primarily on pheromone , chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony .

渐渐地，面对蚂蚁我感到更自在了。

Little by little , I felt more comfortable about ants .

接着我开始在安全的距离观察蚂蚁。

Next I began to watch ants from a safe distance .

我必须学会控制对蚂蚁的恐惧。

I had to learn to control fear of ants .

我每天晚上都会找找床上有没有蚂蚁。

I cheeked my bed for ants every night .