A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!
一群蜜蜂把发动机当作了蜂房，发动机在蜂蜡中被完整地保存了下来。
新概念英语第二册 Lesson 66 Sweet as honey

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

colony ['kɑləni] 词频1
n. 殖民地;聚居地;群体;聚居人群;
💡 colon(till)+y(名词后缀)→殖民；殖民地；居留地
"the American colony in Paris"
聚居巴黎的美国侨民
近义：settlement, dwelling
totally ['totəli] 词频4
adv. 完全，整个地，全部地;百分之百;干净;
💡 tot合计 + ally ...地 → adv. 完全地
"She seemed totally absorbed in her book."
她好像完全被这本书迷住了。
近义：absolutely, off, outright, plumb, quite, roundly 反义：insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
engine ['endʒin] 词频1 词根: en
n. 发动机，引擎;工具;火车头;机车; vt. 给…安装发动机;
💡 谐音“引擎” engineer工程师-engine工程
"We had to completely disassemble the engine to find the problem."
我们只好把发动机全部拆开以寻找故障原因。
近义：motorize, machine, motor, loco, locomotive
hive [haiv] 词频3
n. 蜂箱;蜂巢;蜂群;喧闹地区; vt. 使（蜂）入蜂箱;贮（蜜）于蜂箱中;储备，积累; vi. （蜂）进入蜂箱;聚居;
"The hive is made of wood."
这蜂箱是用木材做的.
近义：apiary, beehive
beeswax [['bi:zwæks]]
n. 蜂蜡, 蜜蜡\\nvt. 用蜡上光
近义：wax

📚 更多「新概念英语第二册」例句

Last summer, I went to Italy.
去年夏天，我去了意大利。
It contained $50.
它里面装着50英镑。
When she was arrested, the detective found out that the shop assistant was her daughter.
她被逮捕后。侦探发现原来那售货员是她的女儿。
As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets.
他一见我们，就拿起了一个长长的上面镶有硬币的管乐器，并掀开了一个筐的盖子。
Once a year, a race is held for old cars.
旧式汽车的比赛每年举行一次。
Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been specially built for him.
他驾驶的“蓝鸟”牌汽车是专门为他制造的。