💬 高三英语课文
共 919 条英汉对照例句 · 第 27 页
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Things were clear now.
事情现在清楚了。
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The circle dance meant that food was near.
圆圈舞表示食物在附近。
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The wagging dance meant that food was far away.
摇摆舞表示食物在远处。
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But then another question came up.
但是另一个问题出现了。
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Did the wagging dance tell the bees how far away the food was?
摇摆舞有没有告诉蜜蜂食物到蜂箱的距离有多远？
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To answer this question, von Frisch and his coworkers set up a feeding place close to the hive.
为了回答这个问题，冯·弗里施和他的同伴在蜂箱附近建起了一个喂食点。
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Then they slowly moved it farther and farther away.
然后，他们慢慢地把它移得越来越远。
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Back at the hive they watched the wagging dance closely.
他们回到蜂箱旁，仔细观察摇摆舞。
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With a stopwatch, they counted how many times the bees repeated the dance during one minute.
他们用秒表记录蜜蜂在一分钟内重复舞蹈的次数。
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They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was.
他们发现离喂食点越远，蜜蜂就跳得越慢。
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So another astonishing fact came to light.
于是又发现了一个惊人的事实。
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The number of wagging dances per minute told the exact distance to the feeding place.
每分钟跳摇摆舞的次数说明了到喂食点的精确距离。
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They also found out that bees fly a maximum distance of 3.2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place.
他们还发现蜜蜂从蜂箱到喂食点的最大飞行距离是3。2公里。
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Next Von Frisch thought that bees needed to know more than just the distance to a faraway place.
接着，冯·弗里施认为蜜蜂不仅需要知道到远的喂食点的距离。
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He thought they needed to know the direction to it.
它们还需要知道去那里的方向。
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He set out to discover whether the wagging dance showed direction.
他开始着手找出摇摆舞是否表示方向。
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He put a glass dish with sugar water and honey to the west of the hive. A marked bee fed itself from the dish and returned to the hive.
他在蜂箱的西面放一个装有糖水和蜜蜂的玻璃碟子。
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Soon, the bees in the hive flew out.They flew right to the dish.
很快，蜂箱里的蜜蜂飞了出来，它们径直朝碟子飞去。
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Then Von Frisch moved the dish to the east of the hive and waited for a marked bee to feed.
然后，冯·弗里施把碟子移到蜂箱的西边，等待有标记的蜜蜂来吃。
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Again the bees flew right to the dish.
蜜蜂又一次径直向碟子飞去。
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How did the bees know exactly in which diection to fly?
蜜蜂是怎样确切地知道朝哪个方向飞呢？
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Von Frisch watched the wagging dance very carefully.
冯·弗里施非常仔细地观察蜜蜂跳的摇摆舞。
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He noticed that the straight part of the dance was different in the afternoon from what it had been in the morning.
他注意到下午舞蹈的直线部分与上午的不一样。
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It soon became clear that the straight part of the dance changed when the sun's position changed. If the feeding place was toward the sun, the dancer headed straight upward during the straight part of the wagging dance.
情况很快就弄清了，舞蹈的直线部分是随着太阳位置的变化而变化的。
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If the feeding place was away from the sun, the straight part of the wagging dance pointed downward.
如果喂食地点向着太阳，跳舞的蜜蜂在跳摇摆舞时直线部分就一直向上。
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The wagging dance of the honey bee, therefore, did show the direction of a feeding place.
如果喂食地点背离太阳，摇摆舞的直线部分就朝下。因此，蜜蜂的摇摆舞的确表示喂食点的方向。
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When honey bees have discovered a feeding place, they fly directly to it from the hive.
当蜜蜂发现一个喂食点时，它们从蜂箱直接飞往那里。
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After a short time a line of bees fly to and from the hive like a thin stream.
过不了一会儿，一队蜜蜂像一条小溪一样在蜂箱和喂食点之间来往飞行。
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Centuries ago, the word beeline was made to describe this thin line of bees flying through the air.
几百年前，有人用beeline 这个词来描写蜜蜂在空中飞行的细窄路线。
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From this we get the expression to make a beeline for someone or something, which means to go quickly along a straight direct course for someone or something.
从这里我们得到一条短语"to make a beeline for someone or something，意思是迅速地沿着一条直线向某人或某物走去。