英语词汇“working bee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

working bee n. chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand a gathering or meeting at which work is done; cf. bee n.¹.

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1870 J. B. Ellis Free Love & its Votaries v. 107 The workers frequently..organize a ‘working-bee’, at which a considerable quantity of work is done.

1883 ‘A Lady’ Facts, or Experiences Recent Colonist N.Z. viii. 68 The ladies of the community..meet for a common cause... Working bees are then got up.

1944 A. J. McIntyre & J. J. McIntyre Country Towns Victoria 118 The actual work necessary for, say, gardens, is sometimes carried out by the men of the town and district, in a ‘working bee’ led by the Progress Association.

1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia i. 23 We were told much of working bees, barn raisings, the making of maple sugar.

2012 D. McKay Global Filipinos i. 24 Villagers note who attends their working bee so as to repay them with future cooperation.

3. Designating a social insect of the worker caste (see worker n. 7). Esp. in working bee.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > relating to worker

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1637 R. Remnant Disc. Bees i. iii. 9 They are the working Bees.

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 115 The working Bees soft melting Gold, That which their waxen Mines enfold.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Queen-bee Not only these common or working bees, but also the drones, or male bees.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 106 In the principal species of the Solitary Wasps, the insect is smaller than the working wasp of the social kind.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxvii. 511 Royal cells capacious enough for the education of one of more queen-grubs selected out of the unhoused working grubs.

1870 A. Pettigrew Handy Bk. of Bees i. iii. 29 The Working Bees. The common working bees are twenty-one days in their cells, and live nine months.

1872 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 7 2/1 It is quite possible that these [openings] may have escaped my notice, as that required for a working termite to pass through is so exceedingly small.

1938 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Feb. 21/1 Where pumpkin-beetles are active a sharp rise in the mortality of working bees follows.

2000 V. G. Gorshkov et al. Biotic Regulation of Environment ii. 47 One may speak about a population..of working ants in an anthill or working bees in a beehive.

单词	working bee
释义	> as lemmas working bee working bee n. chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand a gathering or meeting at which work is done; cf. bee n.¹. ΚΠ 1870 J. B. Ellis Free Love & its Votaries v. 107 The workers frequently..organize a ‘working-bee’, at which a considerable quantity of work is done. 1883 ‘A Lady’ Facts, or Experiences Recent Colonist N.Z. viii. 68 The ladies of the community..meet for a common cause... Working bees are then got up. 1944 A. J. McIntyre & J. J. McIntyre Country Towns Victoria 118 The actual work necessary for, say, gardens, is sometimes carried out by the men of the town and district, in a ‘working bee’ led by the Progress Association. 1956 W. R. Bird Off-trail in Nova Scotia i. 23 We were told much of working bees, barn raisings, the making of maple sugar. 2012 D. McKay Global Filipinos i. 24 Villagers note who attends their working bee so as to repay them with future cooperation. extracted from workingn. working bee 3. Designating a social insect of the worker caste (see worker n. 7). Esp. in working bee. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to ants > relating to worker working1637 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > relating to worker working1637 1637 R. Remnant Disc. Bees i. iii. 9 They are the working Bees. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 115 The working Bees soft melting Gold, That which their waxen Mines enfold. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Queen-bee Not only these common or working bees, but also the drones, or male bees. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 106 In the principal species of the Solitary Wasps, the insect is smaller than the working wasp of the social kind. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxvii. 511 Royal cells capacious enough for the education of one of more queen-grubs selected out of the unhoused working grubs. 1870 A. Pettigrew Handy Bk. of Bees i. iii. 29 The Working Bees. The common working bees are twenty-one days in their cells, and live nine months. 1872 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 7 2/1 It is quite possible that these [openings] may have escaped my notice, as that required for a working termite to pass through is so exceedingly small. 1938 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Feb. 21/1 Where pumpkin-beetles are active a sharp rise in the mortality of working bees follows. 2000 V. G. Gorshkov et al. Biotic Regulation of Environment ii. 47 One may speak about a population..of working ants in an anthill or working bees in a beehive. extracted from workingadj. < as lemmas
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