英语听力：自然百科 大迁徙之繁衍生息 Need to Breed—17
时间：2018-12-03 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2011年
英语课
Even fearsome wasps 1 high in treetops, are no match for the implacable ants. They watch helplessly as their own larvae 2 are stripped from their honeycomb cribs. Now, the porters take up their burdens, they carry the movable feast back to the unquenchable young. Generations of ants will come and go. But the restless hunger of their sisterhood will be immortal 3.
On the Savannas 4 of the Sudan, the clash of males is reaching a fever pitch. A male cub’s life boils down to this.
1 wasps
黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 )； 胡蜂； 易动怒的人； 刻毒的人
- There's a wasps' nest in that old tree. 那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
- We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. 我们不仅生活在对象蜘蛛或黄蜂这样的小虫的惧怕中，而且生活在对诸如飞蛾这样无害昆虫的惧怕中
2 larvae
n.幼虫
- Larvae are parasitic on sheep.幼虫寄生在绵羊的身上。
- The larvae prey upon small aphids.这种幼虫以小蚜虫为食。