The Beekeeper
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents The Work of a Beekeeper.
目录 养蜂人的工作
4 Life in the Hive.
4 在蜂巢的生活。
8 Types of Bees.
8类蜜蜂.
13 Making Honey.
(原始内容存档于2018-09-13). 13 Making Honey.
16 Glossary.
16 词汇表。
22 The Work of a Beekeeper Interviewer: Did you get the name “Buzz” because you keep bees?
22 养蜂记者的工作: 你因为养蜜蜂而叫"Buz"吗?
Buzz: No, my parents started calling me Buzz before I was born.
贝丝: 不,我的父母开始叫我巴斯 在我出生之前。
Russell “Buzz” Riopelle is a beekeeper in the Cleveland, Ohio, area.
Russell “Buzz” Riopelle是俄亥俄州克利夫兰地区的养蜂人。
He has been keeping bees for 30 years.
他养蜜蜂30年了
Interviewer: How much work is involved in beekeeping?
采访者: 养蜂需要多少活?
Buzz: There’s a lot of work, and it has to be done at the correct time.
贝丝: 工作很多,必须及时完成。
A one- or two-week delay can affect your honey crop drastically.
推迟一到两周会严重影响你的蜜收
You have to make sure the queen is laying eggs.
你一定要确保王后下蛋
You have to look at your bees every two to three weeks to make sure everything is all right.
你每两到三周都要看蜜蜂 才能确保一切正常
Removing the honey is a lot of heavy work.
取出蜂蜜是很多重活.
I have to lift the honeycomb out of the hives and put it on the truck.
我得把蜂窝搬出蜂窝 放在卡车上
Then I carry it into the honey house, where I extract the honey.
然后我把它带到蜂蜜屋,在那里取出蜂蜜.
Interviewer: What kind of equipment do you need?
采访者: 你需要什么样的设备?
Buzz: I wear a bee suit to keep my clothes clean.
巴斯:我穿着蜜蜂西装来保持我的衣服干净.
I also wear a veil over my head to protect my eyes and head from stings.
我头上还戴了面纱来保护我的眼睛和头部免受刺痛.
I use a smoker to calm the bees.
我用烟花来镇静蜜蜂
That’s a small can with a bellows on it.
那是个小罐头,
I build a little fire in there and put the lid on.
我在那里建了个小火 把盖子盖上
When you blow smoke on bees, they think it’s a forest fire.
他们认为是森林火灾。
They fill their stomachs with honey in case they have to leave their tree.
它们用蜂蜜来填饱肚子 以防它们离开树
That’s why smoke seems to calm them, because it keeps them busy.
因此烟雾似乎让他们平静下来,
Buzz’s truck carries honey boxes and a bee blower.
巴斯的卡车装有蜜盒和一个蜜蜂吹哨人.
The blower blows the bees out of the boxes.
吹者从箱中把蜜蜂吹出.
Each box holds 35 to 45 pounds (16–20 kg) of honey.
每个盒子都持有35至45磅(16至20公斤)的蜂蜜.
Buzz pours smoke over an open hive.
巴斯把烟倒在一个开阔的蜂巢上.
Interviewer: How often do you get stung?
采访者: 你多久被打晕一次?
Buzz: I get stung a couple thousand times a year because I don’t wear gloves.
巴斯:我每年被打上几千次,
Gloves are bulky and hard to keep clean, so they can spread disease.
手套体积大而难以保持清洁,因此可以传播疾病.
I don’t swell up from stings anymore, but they still hurt.
我不再因为被刺而膨胀,
I work the bees on nice sunny days around two o’clock in the afternoon when all the flowers are producing nectar.
在下午2点左右,
When half the bees are out collecting nectar, I only have to deal with the other half.
当有一半的蜜蜂外出采集花蜜时,我只需要处理另一半.
Life in the Hive Interviewer: Tell me about the kinds of bees.
蜂巢采访者的生活: 说出蜜蜂的种类.
Buzz: There are queens, drones, and workers.
贝丝: 有皇后,无人机,还有工人
The queens and workers are female, and the drones are male.
后人和工人为女性,无人机为男性.
All the bees in the hive come from eggs laid by the queen.
蜂巢中的所有蜜蜂都出自女王所产的卵.
In the springtime she lays 1,500 to 2,000 eggs a day.
在春天她每天产出1500到2000个鸡蛋.
Drones are only useful for mating.
无人机只用于交配.
They don’t work at all.
他们根本行不通。
Every day they congregate outside the hive, waiting for a queen to fly by.
每天他们聚集在蜂巢外,等待着一个女王飞来.
Then they race after her and mate with her.
然后他们追上她 和她交配
Top to bottom: A worker, a drone, and a Queen honeybee Even after Buzz calms the bees with smoke, they may still sting his bare hands as he moves the boxes.
从上到下: 一个工人,一个无人机,一个蜜蜂女王 即使巴斯用烟雾平息了蜜蜂,他们仍然可能在他移动箱子时刺到他的赤手.
Interviewer: I thought the queen never left the hive.
采访者: 我以为女王从未离开过蜂巢
She flies around?
她飞来飞去?
Buzz: She makes short flights to mate.
她做短途飞行交配。
Other than that, she only leaves to swarm.
除此以外,她只离开去聚居地。
If a second queen develops in the hive, the colony divides.
如果第二个皇后在蜂巢中发展,殖民地就会分裂.
The new queen stays in the old location.
新王后留在旧地.
The old queen and half the bees find a new place to live.
老后和半个蜜蜂找了个新住处.
They fill their stomachs with two or three days’ supply of honey.
他们用两三天的蜂蜜供应来填饱肚子。
They find another place to build a honeycomb.
他们另找地方建个蜂窝
Then they store the honey in this new comb and start laying eggs.
然后,他们把蜂蜜储存在这个新的梳子中并开始产卵.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Bees make beeswax from glands on their bellies.
蜜蜂在腹部用腺体做蜂蜡
They scrape thin sheets of wax off their bellies with their legs.
他们用腿从腹部刮去薄薄的蜡片
Then they form the wax into the six-sided cells of the honeycomb.
然后将蜡形成蜂窝的六面细胞.
People use beeswax to make candles, lip gloss, moisturizer, and decorations.
人们会用蜂花来做蜡烛,唇光,润湿等装饰.
Even the seals underneath your toilet that keep it from leaking are made of beeswax.
即使是你的厕所下面的封口 防止它漏出 也是用蜂蜡做的
For health reasons, people eat pollen and “royal jelly,” a special food that bees make for the queen.
出于健康考虑,人们会吃花粉和"皇家果冻",这是蜜蜂为王后出产的一种特殊食物.
Honey is also used in many health and beauty products.
蜂蜜也被用于许多健康和美容产品.
Honeycomb with eggs in the cells.
细胞里有蛋的蜂窝
The eggs look like tiny grains of rice standing on end.
鸡蛋看起来像小粒稻谷 站在一端。
Interviewer: How long do bees live?
采访者: 蜜蜂活了多长时间?
Buzz: Queens can live two to three years.
巴斯:皇后可以活2到3年.
In the summertime, drones and workers live for only four to six weeks because their wings wear out.
在夏天,无人机和工人只活了4到6周,因为他们的翅膀磨损了.
In the winter they live longer because they don’t fly.
在冬天,
In the wintertime, they eat honey and shiver to generate heat.
在冬季,它们会吃蜂蜜并发抖以产生热量.
When it’s 5 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit; –20° C) outside, it’s 95 degrees (Fahrenheit; 35° C) in the center of the beehive.
当其外侧为零下5度(华氏;-20°C)时,蜂窝中心为95度(华氏;35°C).
This keeps the colony alive during the winter.
这使得殖民地在冬季生存.
Interviewer: How many bees live in a hive?
采访者: 有多少蜜蜂住在蜂窝里?
Buzz: In the summertime, there can be 60,000 to 80,000.
贝丝: 入夏可有六万至八万.
Interviewer: How do bees find their way back to the hive?
采访者: 蜜蜂怎么找到回蜂窝的路?
Buzz: When they leave the hive, they notice where the sun is in the sky.
贝丝: 当他们离开蜂巢时,就会注意到太阳在天空中的位置.
When they come back, they use the sun to find their way.
后出来后用出出取道之阳.
On cloudy or rainy days, bees don’t fly because they can’t see the sun.
在多云或多雨的日子,
This beehive is a large box with a row of frames inside.
这个蜂窝是一个大盒子,里面有一行相框.
The bees build honeycombs on the frames.
蜜蜂在框架上建立蜂窝.
The honeycomb is where bees lay eggs, raise their young, and store pollen and honey.
蜂窝是蜜蜂产卵的地方,饲养幼年,并储存花粉和蜂蜜.
A honeybee queen (the larger bee in the center) is surrounded by workers that feed, clean, and take care of her.
一个蜜蜂后(中间更大的蜜蜂)被工人所包围,他们供养,清洁,照顾她.
Interviewer: What’s the difference between honeybees and “killer bees”?
采访者: 蜜蜂和"杀手蜜蜂"有何区别?
Buzz: There is no difference, other than where they come from.
贝丝: 除所出处外,别有别相.
They produce honey just like regular bees.
他们生产的蜂蜜就像普通蜜蜂一样.
A scientist from South America bred bees from Africa with South American bees.
来自南美的科学家用南美蜜蜂从非洲生出蜜蜂.
But the Africanized bees he created are easily riled up.
但他创造的非洲化蜜蜂很容易被激怒.
Hundreds or thousands of bees will attack one animal or person.
有上千只蜜蜂会攻击一只动物或人
The Africanized bees, which some people call “killer bees,” come into a beehive, kick out the bees that live there, and take over.
一些人称之为 " 杀手蜜蜂 " 的非洲化蜜蜂走入蜂窝,赶走住在那里的蜜蜂并接管。
You can come back next week, open your beehive, and suddenly get lots of stings.
你可以下周回来,打开你的蜂窝, 突然得到很多刺。
The bees move in that quickly.
蜜蜂们动作很快
People have been trying to get rid of them for thirty years.
众生想除去已三十由旬.
But Africanized bees and honeybees do the same job.
但是非洲化的蜜蜂和蜜蜂也做同样的工作.
Types of Bees Interviewer: Are there different kinds of honeybees?
蜜蜂类型 采访者: 有不同种类的蜜蜂吗?
Buzz: There are different kinds of bees from different places.
贝丝: 不同地有不同种类的蜜蜂.
Caucasian bees come from the Caucasus Mountains in Europe.
高加索蜜蜂出自欧洲高加索山脉.
Italian bees come from Italy, and there are bees from Africa.
意大利蜜蜂出自意大利,有蜜蜂出自非洲.
These are all honeybees.
这些都是蜜蜂。
America actually has no native honeybees.
美国实际上没有本土蜜蜂.
The Pilgrims and settlers brought bees from Europe on their ships.
朝圣者和定居者将来自欧洲的蜜蜂带到了他们的船上.
Then those bees flew all over the United States and built hives.
然后这些蜜蜂飞遍了美国,并建立了蜂巢.
Making Honey Interviewer: Do bees use pollen to make honey?
制造蜂蜜 采访者: 蜜蜂会用花粉来做蜂蜜吗?
Buzz: No, they make honey from nectar, the liquid they collect from flowers.
贝丝: 不,它们从花蜜中取出蜂蜜, 从花中取出液体。
The bee goes to the flower and eats the nectar, putting it into her honey stomach.
蜂去花去取花取取花取花入入蜜胃.
She flies back to the beehive, spits the nectar out, and other bees store it in the comb.
她飞回蜂窝去,吐出花蜜来,而其他蜂将花蜜放入梳子中.
Then bees fan their wings to evaporate water from the nectar and make it thicker.
后被蜜蜂扇起翅膀从花蜜中蒸出出出水来,使其更浓.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Both queen and worker bees have stingers.
后蜂和工人蜂都有刺伤者.
A worker bee’s stinger has a hook on the end.
工人蜜蜂的刺头有钩子。
When a worker bee stings, the stinger pulls out some of its insides.
工人蜂出刺后,被刺取出一些内脏.
This kills the bee, so a bee will only sting when its life, or the hive, is at risk.
这能杀死蜜蜂,所以蜜蜂只有在生命,或蜂巢处于危险时才会发作.
The queen bee has a smooth stinger, so she can sting over and over.
后相蜂有平滑相刺者,以相相刺也.
Some people are allergic to bee stings.
有些人对蜜蜂刺过敏.
Their throats can swell up and cause breathing problems.
它们的喉咙会肿起并引起呼吸问题.
People who are allergic to stings must carry a special medicine with them to stop a reaction before it gets too bad.
对刺有过敏反应的人必须携带一种特殊的药来阻止反应,以免它变得太糟.
A bee can push its hooked stinger into skin.
蜜蜂可以把被钩住的刺入皮肤
When the stinger sticks, it pulls out part of the bee’s insides.
刺手一出后会抽出蜜蜂的部分内脏.
The bee leaves a venom sac that causes the sting to hurt.
蜜蜂会留下毒液,使被刺者会受伤害.
A bee collects pollen and nectar from flowers.
蜜蜂从花中采集花粉和花蜜.
But the biggest purpose of bees in this country is not to make honey.
但这个国家蜜蜂的最大目的就是不做蜂蜜.
Their purpose is to pollinate crops like alfalfa, an important animal feed, and melons and almonds.
它们的目的是为作物授粉,如阿尔法法,一种重要的动物饲料,以及瓜和杏仁等.
Inside every flower, an anther produces pollen.
每朵花中,一头蚂蚁都会产生花粉.
This is a powder that contains the male cells of the plant.
这是含有植物雄性细胞的粉末.
There is also a pistil, which produces seeds when pollen from another flower brushes on it.
也有一种活塞,当花粉从另一花笔上取出后会出出种子.
When a bee goes into a flower to get nectar, pollen from the anther rubs onto the bee.
当一头蜜蜂进入花地得到花蜜时,从 an取出花粉去向蜜蜂取出.
When she goes to the next flower, the pollen rubs onto the pistil.
当她去下一朵花时,花粉会摩擦到活塞上.
Different flowers have different flavors of nectar.
不同的花有不同的花蜜口味.
Orange-blossom honey tastes different from apple-blossom honey.
橙花花蜜的口味与苹果花花蜜不同.
People with orchards don’t have time to keep bees, so they rent bees from me.
有果园的人没有时间养蜜蜂,
I take my bees into their orchard at night and leave them for a week or two.
我晚上带蜜蜂去他们的果园 然后离开他们一两周
After the flowers have fallen off the trees, I take the bees home.
花从树上掉下后 我带蜜蜂回家
When I take my bees to an apple orchard, I get apple-blossom honey.
当我带我的蜜蜂去苹果果园, 我得到苹果花蜜。
If I took them to an orange orchard, I’d get orange-blossom honey.
如果我带他们去橙色果园,
Honey comes in many delicious flavors, depending on which flower the nectar came from.
蜂蜜以许多美味的口味来来来,这取决于花蜜来自哪朵花.
Interviewer: How do you get the honey out of the comb?
采访者: 你怎么把蜂蜜从梳子里弄出来?
Buzz: A wax cap seals the honeycomb.
巴斯:一顶蜡帽封了蜂窝.
I have to cut off the capping and then put the frame into a machine that spins around.
我得切断盖子 然后把相框放入旋转的机器
This makes the honey fly out of the cells.
这使得蜂蜜飞出细胞.
I give the comb back to the bees, and they fill it up again.
我把梳子还给蜜蜂,它们又把它填满了.
After the honey comes out, I heat it to thin it.
蜂蜜出后,我把它加热为稀释.
Then I filter out the wax and put the honey in jars.
然后我过滤出蜡 把蜂蜜放入罐子
Interviewer: How much honey do you get from one beehive?
采访者: 一个蜂窝能给你多少蜂蜜?
Buzz: Between 60 and 350 pounds (27–159 kg.)
巴斯:60至350磅(27–159公斤)之间.
of honey a year, depending on the location and how hardworking the bees are.
取决于蜜蜂的位置和勤劳程度
Bees are like people.
蜜蜂就像人一样
Some people get up early and work.
有人早起去打工.
Buzz’s honey house has a heating tank (lower right-hand corner) and a tube that pumps the honey through a filter bag (center) and into a bucket.
巴斯的蜂蜜屋有一个取暖罐(右下角)和一个管子,将蜂蜜通过过滤袋(中间)泵入一桶.
A frame of honeycomb.
蜜窝的框.
The honey is on the outside.
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The light circle contains eggs whose cells are capped to protect them until they hatch.
光圈中含有卵子,其细胞被盖住以保护到孵出.
The very center contains pollen.
中心含有花粉
Glossary anther (n.)
术语ather (n.)
the male part of a flower that produces pollen (p.
花的雄性部分产生花粉(p.
17) bellows (n.)
17）风箱（名词）
a pump that blows air (p.
吹出空气的泵 (p.
6) cells (n.)
6) 单元格(n.
the six-sided cups that form a honeycomb (p.
组成蜂窝的六面杯(p.
9) congregate (v.)
9)聚会(五.
to gather together (p.
集合(p.
8) extract (v.)
8) 提取(五.
to take out (p.
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5) honeycomb (n.)
5) 蜂窝 (n.
layers of cells that form a beehive (p.
形成蜂窝的细胞层 (p.
5) native (adj.)
5) 本地(adj.
belonging to a specific place or country by birth (p.
属于特定地点或国家的出生地(p.
13) pistil (n.)
13)活塞 (n.
the female part of the flower that produces seeds (p.
花中出产种子的雌性部分(p.
17) pollen (n.)
17)花粉 (n.
male flower cells that often look like yellow dust (p.
雄花细胞常外观为黄尘(p.
12) Do You Know?
12)你知道吗?
Honey never spoils.
亲爱的从不破坏。
Bacteria don’t grow in it because it has too much acid.
细菌不会生长,
The acid is antibacterial.
酸是抗菌药.
Putting honey on a burn or a wound will help prevent infection and help the wound heal faster.
将蜂蜜放入烧伤或伤口会有助于防止感染并更快地帮助伤口愈合.
This bee is covered in pollen.
此蜂被花粉所覆盖.
She will spread the pollen to other flowers, producing seeds.
她会把花粉传播到其他花地,产生出种子.