英语词汇“to tell the bees”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P14. to tell the bees: to perform the custom of informing a hive of bees that their owner has died, the traditional belief being that if this is not done the bees will die, leave their hive, or stop producing honey.Outside Britain, the custom has been recorded in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and the United States.

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1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xxxix. 203 If there's any body dies in the house, they'll all go away if you don't take no notice on 'em; but if you go and talk to 'em, and tell 'em that sich a one is dead (calling him by name), and hang a black cloth over the hive, and tell the bees if they'll stay you'll do well by 'em, why they'll stay and go to work peaceable.]

1866 Fraser's Mag. May 649/1 ‘Have ye told the bees?’ she continued; and she went out to perform that important ceremony.

1890 W. N. Guthrie Love Conquereth 136 They told the bees long since, yet you 're Still in this desolate place.

1896 Folk-lore 7 385 A farmer's wife..lost her husband in the summer of 1892, and in her grief and distress forgot to tell the bees. Some time after all the hives but one were found to be deserted.

1935 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 8 Aug. 372/1 A dismal day. Mother busy cutting and measuring black stuff. ‘What's that for, mother?’ I ask. ‘To put on the hives... We've got to “tell” the bees.’

1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher 157 Behind us, a short, bitter voice said, ‘She's tellin' the bees.’

2002 S. Rosenbaum Honey i. 19 In rural Britain, the custom of ‘telling the bees’ has persisted for centuries.

单词	to tell the bees
释义	> as lemmas to tell the bees P14. to tell the bees: to perform the custom of informing a hive of bees that their owner has died, the traditional belief being that if this is not done the bees will die, leave their hive, or stop producing honey.Outside Britain, the custom has been recorded in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and the United States. ΚΠ 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xxxix. 203 If there's any body dies in the house, they'll all go away if you don't take no notice on 'em; but if you go and talk to 'em, and tell 'em that sich a one is dead (calling him by name), and hang a black cloth over the hive, and tell the bees if they'll stay you'll do well by 'em, why they'll stay and go to work peaceable.] 1866 Fraser's Mag. May 649/1 ‘Have ye told the bees?’ she continued; and she went out to perform that important ceremony. 1890 W. N. Guthrie Love Conquereth 136 They told the bees long since, yet you 're Still in this desolate place. 1896 Folk-lore 7 385 A farmer's wife..lost her husband in the summer of 1892, and in her grief and distress forgot to tell the bees. Some time after all the hives but one were found to be deserted. 1935 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 8 Aug. 372/1 A dismal day. Mother busy cutting and measuring black stuff. ‘What's that for, mother?’ I ask. ‘To put on the hives... We've got to “tell” the bees.’ 1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher 157 Behind us, a short, bitter voice said, ‘She's tellin' the bees.’ 2002 S. Rosenbaum Honey i. 19 In rural Britain, the custom of ‘telling the bees’ has persisted for centuries. extracted from tellv. < as lemmas
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