Make Honey
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Amazing Honey.
内容表惊人的蜂蜜。
4 Types of Honeybees.
4 蜜蜂类型。
5 Foraging.
5 觅取.
6 Passing the Nectar.
6,传入内克.
8 Drying the Honey.
8 干出蜂蜜来。
10 Capping the Cells.
10号监牢
11 Types of Honey.
11类"蜂蜜".
12 Helping Bees.
12帮助蜜蜂。
13 Glossary.
13 词汇。
16 Amazing Honey Honey is one of the most useful and delicious of all foods.
16"神奇蜂蜜"是所有食物中最有用和最美味的一款.
You can spread it on bread, pour it in tea, and sweeten cakes and cookies with it.
你可以在面包上传播,倒入茶中,并用它来甜饼和饼干.
Honey is an important food source for many animals, including bears, raccoons, skunks, and opossums.
蜂蜜是许多动物的重要食物来源,包括熊,浣熊,臭鼬,和 op等.
Humans have been big fans of honey for at least nine thousand years.
人类至少九千年以来一直是蜂蜜的大粉丝.
Ancient Egyptians even used honey to preserve mummies!
古埃及人甚至用蜂蜜来保存木乃伊!
Of course, bees aren’t making honey in order to benefit other species.
当然,蜜蜂不会为了其他物种的利益而做蜂蜜。
Bees produce honey to feed their young.
蜜蜂生产出蜂蜜来喂养幼蜜.
They also need it to have a guaranteed source of food during cold winter months when they can’t find flowers.
在寒冷的冬天,
Honey is critical to their survival.
蜂蜜是他们生存的关键
Maybe you’ve heard that honey is bee vomit or bee poop.
可能你听说过蜂蜜是蜜蜂呕吐或蜜蜂大便。
Wrong on both counts!
两个都错了!
Bees make honey through an extraordinary process that involves much hard work and cooperation between all the hive’s members.
蜜蜂通过一个非常的过程来生出蜂蜜,这需要所有蜂巢成员付出大量的努力和合作。
People eat honey with many kinds of foods.
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Types of Honeybees Honeybee hives are home to three types of bees: workers (female), drones (male), and queens.
蜜蜂类型 蜜蜂蜂蜂窝有三种蜜蜂:工人(女性),无人机(男性)和后蜂.
The queen’s role is to lay eggs—as many as two thousand a day.
女王的职责是每天产出多达两千个卵子。
The drones’ main purpose is to mate with the queen.
无人机的主要目的是与王后交配.
Worker bees have different jobs, depending on their stage of development.
工蜂有不同的工作,视其发展阶段而定.
For the first half of her life, a worker bee usually lives inside the hive.
在她上半生,工蜂通常会生活在蜂巢内.
During that time, she has various jobs, including nurse, guard, and attendant to the queen.
在此期间,她有各种工作,包括护士、警卫和女王的随从。
Older worker bees become foragers, gathering nectar and pollen from flowers.
老年工人蜂会成为饲料,从花中采集花蜜和花粉.
Without nectar—a sweet substance made of sugar and water—there can be no honey.
没有花蜜——由糖和水制成的甜味物质——就不可能有蜂蜜。
A typical honeybee hive has only one queen, up to five hundred drones, and as many as sixty thousand workers.
一个典型的蜜蜂蜂蜂巢只有一个后,最多有500个无人机,还有多达6万个工人.
Foraging Worker bees usually travel within 2 kilometers (1.
觅食工蜂通常在2公里以内行走(1.
25 mi.)
25分钟)
of their hive to find nectar.
他们的蜂巢寻找花蜜。
However, they may fly two or even three times that far if need be.
然而,如果有必要,它们可能飞得比现在多两到三倍。
A bee sucks up nectar from a blossom using her long, pointed tongue, or proboscis.
蜜蜂吸取花蜜 用她长而尖的舌头 或发作
This mouthpart is hollow, like a straw.
这口是空的,就像吸管。
A honeybee has two stomachs.
蜜蜂有两胃.
The nectar is collected in a special honey stomach, also known as a crop.
花蜜被收集在一个特殊的蜂蜜胃中,也叫作收成.
This is a different stomach from the one used for digesting food.
这是与用于消化食物的胃不同.
A bee can carry close to her own weight in nectar in her honey stomach.
蜜蜂在蜂蜜胃中可以携带与自己体重相近的花蜜.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
A honeybee sucks nectar from a plant.
蜜蜂吸取了植物上的花蜜
Bees don’t just collect nectar as they travel from flower to flower.
蜜蜂在花朵相去不远的时候,
Every time a bee lands on a flower, a little bit of pollen sticks to her feet.
每次蜜蜂在花地上降落时,会有一点花粉会粘在她的脚上.
As she flies from blossom to blossom, she transfers pollen between the male and female parts of the flower.
当她从花朵飞到花朵时 她会在花朵的雌雄部分之间转移花粉
(Some pollen may also fall from bees as they fly and be transported to flowers by wind.)
(有花粉也可能从蜜蜂起落而来,由风来飘去花上.
This transfer of pollen, called pollination, allows fertilization to take place so that plants can produce fruit and seeds.
这种花粉的传出,被称作"花粉",可以进行受精,使植物能够产生出水果和种子.
Thirty percent of the foods we eat—blueberries, strawberries, apples, beans, lettuce, onions, and more—are pollinated by bees.
百分之三十的食物——蓝莓、草莓、苹果、豆子、生菜、洋葱, 以及更多的被蜜蜂授粉。
Pollen is also an essential part of a honeybee’s diet.
Pollen也是蜜蜂饮食的重要组成部分。
Some honeybees gather pollen instead of, or in addition to, nectar.
有的蜜蜂会采集花粉来代替或补充花蜜.
They collect it in special body parts on their legs.
他们用腿上的特殊身体部位来收集.
Then they bring it back to the hive to share with other bees.
然后他们把它带回蜂窝 与其他蜜蜂分享。
A honeybee covered with pollen from other flowers spreads it to an African daisy.
被花粉覆盖的蜜蜂 将花粉传播到非洲菊花上
Passing the Nectar While forager bees fly around looking for flowers, the nectar in their honey stomach mixes with chemicals called enzymes.
穿过内克塔尔 当被伪造的蜜蜂飞来飞去寻找花朵时,蜂蜜胃中的花蜜会与被称作酶的化学物质相混合.
These chemicals begin the process of transforming the nectar into honey.
这些化学品开始将花蜜转化为蜂蜜的过程.
A forager bee may need to visit up to five hundred flowers to fill her honey stomach.
蜜蜂可能需要访问500多朵花来填充蜂蜜胃.
When it’s finally full, she returns to the hive.
她回到了蜂巢。
There, another worker bee—known as a house bee or a processor bee—is waiting.
在那里,另一只工人蜜蜂——称为家蜜蜂或加工者蜜蜂——正在等待。
The forager bee regurgitates, or spits up, the nectar solution into the processor bee’s mouth.
伪造的蜜蜂会重新发酵,或者吐出花蜜溶液入加工的蜜蜂口中.
A forager honeybee passes nectar from her stomach to the mouth of a waiting house bee.
出道的蜜蜂会从胃口传出花蜜到等待室蜂口.
While the forager bees return to hunting for nectar, the processor bees continue their work.
趁着伪造的蜜蜂回想猎取花蜜,加工的蜜蜂继续工作.
They pass the liquid from one bee to another, adding more enzymes each time.
它们将液体从一头蜜蜂传递到另一只蜜蜂,每次会加入更多的酶.
These enzymes break down the complex sugars in the solution into two simpler sugars, chemically changing nectar into honey.
这些酶将溶液中的复合糖分解为两种更简单的糖,化学上将花蜜转化为蜂蜜.
Repeated contact with warm air in the hive during the regurgitation process evaporates some of the water in the honey.
在重生过程中与蜂巢中温空气反复接触会使蜂蜜中的一些水分蒸发.
If a forager bee has discovered a good source of nectar on her travels, she lets the other bees know.
如果一头假蜜蜂在出行中发现了好花蜜的来源,她就会让其他蜜蜂知道.
By performing a dance composed of waggles, runs, turns, and other movements, she communicates the location of the food source.
通过表演由摇晃,跑跑跑,转弯等动作组成的舞蹈,她沟通了食物来源的位置.
A group of processor bees pass nectar from mouth to mouth to help change it into honey.
一组加工蜂将花蜜从口到口相传来帮助将花蜜转化为蜂蜜.
Happy Dance!
欢乐之舞!
Drying the Honey After about half an hour of being passed back and forth, the nectar is ready to go in the honeycomb.
擦干亲爱的 前后相传约半小时后,花蜜已经准备去蜂窝.
Each cell in a honeycomb is a perfect hexagon (a shape with six sides of equal length) made of beeswax.
蜂窝中的每个细胞都是由蜂窝所制成的完美的六边形(一个有等长的六边形).
Bees create beeswax in glands on their abdomens.
蜜蜂在腹部的腺体中产生蜂蜡.
The beeswax comes out of their body in thin sheets called scales.
蜂花从身体中取出被称作鳞片的薄片.
Hexagonal cells use the least amount of beeswax to make the strongest, most compact honeycomb possible.
六边形细胞使用最少量的蜂蜡来使最强,最紧凑的蜂窝成为可能.
Bees spread out the nectar solution in the cell so water can continue to evaporate.
蜜蜂将花蜜溶液分散出细胞,使水能继续蒸发.
Addit iona l ly, bees help thicken the liquid even more by fanning it with their wings at top speed.
蜜蜂用它们的翅膀在最高速度扇动 使液体更厚
As the air moves around the cell, more moisture evaporates.
随着空气在细胞周围移动,更多的水分会蒸发.
drop of nectar into a honeycomb cell.
花蜜滴入蜂窝细胞
cell with nectar.
有花蜜的细胞。
How long can sealed honey stay fresh?
密封蜂蜜能保持新鲜多久?
While excavating Egypt’s famous pyramids, archaeologists found pots of honey in an ancient tomb.
在挖掘出埃及著名的金字塔时,考古学家在一个古墓中发现了一罐蜂蜜.
The honey, which dates back approximately three thousand years, is the world’s oldest sample.
蜂蜜大约可以追溯到三千年前,是世界上最古老的样本。
It was preserved—and still edible!
它被保存下来了,仍然可以吃!
Capping the Cells Once enough water has evaporated and the honey is the correct thickness, it is ready to be capped.
抓取单元格 一旦足够多的水被蒸发,而蜂蜜是正确的厚度,它就可以被盖上.
Bees use beeswax to cap the filled honeycomb cells to keep them clean and airtight.
蜜蜂使用蜂蜡来封住已填充的蜂窝细胞来保持它们清洁并保持空气密闭.
The honey is now ready to be stored until it’s needed in winter—or harvested for humans (or other animals) to enjoy.
蜂蜜现在可以储存到冬天,
This drawing of a bee was found in an Egyptian tomb.
这幅蜜蜂出土的图画出于一出埃及墓.
A group of worker bees cap off filled honeycomb cells.
一群工人蜂蜂盖被蜂窝细胞挤出
Types of Honey The flavor, color, and thickness of honey can vary, depending on the type of flower a bee harvests nectar from.
蜂蜜类型 蜂蜜的口味,颜色,和厚度可能有所不同,取决于蜜蜂从哪类花朵中收获花蜜.
Different flavors of honey are popular in different countries.
不同口味的蜂蜜在不同国家很受欢迎.
Lavender honey is often consumed in France, while wild thyme honey is commonly eaten in Greece.
法国常食用拉芬德花蜜,而希腊常食用野生的花心花蜜.
In the United States, clovers contribute more to honey production than any other group of plants.
在美国,丁香对蜂蜜生产的贡献比任何其他类植物都要多.
Because honey contains so little water, has a high sugar content, and is slightly acidic, bacteria and other germs cannot grow in it.
因为蜂蜜含水量如此之少,含糖量高,且有轻微酸性,细菌等细菌无法在其中生长.
When mixed with water, honey produces hydrogen peroxide, a chemical that kills germs.
与水相混合后,蜂蜜会生成过氧化氢,这种化学品会杀死细菌.
This makes honey useful in treating wounds.
这使得蜂蜜在治疗伤口时有用.
Manuka honey, produced primarily in New Zealand, is better for treating wounds than other kinds of honey because of a special chemical found in the nectar of manuka flowers.
玛努卡花蜜主要出产于新西兰,由于在玛努卡花花花花蜜中发现了一种特殊的化学物质,因此比起其他种类的蜂蜜,更能治疗伤口.
Honey can look and taste very different, depending on the kinds of flowers the bees visited to make it.
蜂蜜的外观和口味都非常不同,这取决于蜜蜂为了制作而拜访的花的种类.
Helping Bees Bees work so hard to make honey—foraging and processing the nectar and then drying and storing the honey—because they need its nutrients to survive.
帮助蜜蜂 蜜蜂如此努力地生产出蜂蜜—— 饲料和加工花蜜,然后干燥和储存蜂蜜—— 因为他们需要它的营养才能活下来。
Though humans have found many uses for this sweet treat, we don’t rely on it the way honeybees do.
虽然人类已经发现这种甜点有许多用途,
However, we do need bees to help pollinate much of the food we eat and the crops that feed other animals.
然而,我们确实需要蜜蜂来帮助对我们所吃的大部分食物和喂养其他动物的作物授粉.
Eighty-five percent of the world’s almonds are grown in California.
世界有85%的杏花是生长在加利福尼亚.
The almond orchards there need 1.
那里的杏花果园需要1.
7 million hives of bees to pollinate them each year.
每年有700万只蜂蜂向它们授粉.
We can help honeybees by planting bee- friendly flowers; bees especially love wildflowers and native plants.
可以通过种植蜜蜂友好花来帮助蜜蜂;蜜蜂尤其喜欢野花和原生植物.
We can also help them by using fewer chemicals to kill bugs and weeds, many of which can harm bees.
我们还可以通过使用更少的化学物质来帮助他们去杀死虫子和杂草,其中许多可以伤害蜜蜂.
When possible, buy honey from local beekeepers who nurture their bees.
在可能的情况下,从养蜂的当地养蜂人那里购买蜂蜜.
Even putting out a saucer of water in summertime, with a stone or pebble for bees to stand on, can help thirsty worker bees that need a water break.
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By protecting bees and their environment, we can help them keep making delicious honey—for them and for us!
通过保护蜜蜂及其环境,我们可以帮助他们不断为它们和我们做美味的蜂蜜!
Bees stop for a drink at a water dish left out for them in a hot, dry climate.
蜜蜂在炎热干燥的气候中,在水菜上停下来喝酒。
Humans also use these other bee products: More Than Honey beeswax Royal jelly is used in some cosmetics and as a dietary supplement and medicine, though its benefits for humans have not been proven.
人类也使用这些其他蜜蜂产品: 更多 相较于"蜜蜂花"(Honey Beeswax Royal summer),在一些化妆品中被使用并作为一种膳食补充和药物,尽管它对人类的好处还没有被证明.
It is produced by worker bees and fed to all larvae in the honeybee colony for the first three days of life.
它由工蜂所出产,并被喂入蜂蜜蜂聚居地中的所有幼虫上活后的头三天.
Bee venom is what makes bee stings hurt.
蜜蜂毒是蜜蜂被刺伤的原因
It’s used to help with certain medical problems, such as arthritis.
用来治疗某些医学问题,
Beeswax—the substance used to form honeycombs and cap cells—has many uses.
Beswax——用来形成蜂窝和顶盖细胞的物质——有许多用途。
Historically, it has been used to make candles and cosmetics, in sealing wax, in making bows for archery, and to strengthen sewing thread and shoelaces, among other uses.
历史上,它一直被用来做蜡烛和化妆品,用来封蜡,用来做弓箭,并强化缝纫线和鞋带等用途.
Glossary abdomens (n.)
术语bdomens (n.)
back parts of insect bodies, which contain the reproductive and digestive organs (p.
含有生殖器官和消化器官的昆虫体背部部分(p.
10) capped (v.)
10)封顶(五.
covered or limited something (p.
被覆盖或有限的东西(第5页)
11) cooperation (n.)
11) 合作(n.)
the act of working together toward a shared goal (p.
为实现共同目标而共同努力的行为(p.
4) critical (adj.)
4) 关键(adj.
very important (p.
非常重要(第5页)
4) digesting (v.)
4)消化(五.
processing food in the body and turning it into energy (p.
在体内加工出食物并转化为能量(p.
6) evaporates (v.)
6)蒸发(五.
changes from a liquid to a gas (p.
从液体变为气体(p.
9) fertilization (n.)
9)受精(n.