Or that the queen bee can lay over 1,000 eggs a day?

或者蜂王一天能下1000多个蛋？

The queen bee lays all the eggs.

蜂后产卵。

And the bee, the queen bee. Literally.

真正说这个蜜蜂是蜂后。

When winter begins, all bumblebees die except a few pregnant queen bees. In the spring, those queens head out alone to start a new structure to live and produce worker bees in, beginning the process all over again.

冬季临时，除了几只怀孕蜂王能够幸存，所有大黄蜂都会死去。在春季，这些蜂王会开始独自筑巢，繁殖工蜂，年年如此。

In the 1970s, this phenomenon was common enough that the term " queen bee" was used to describe a woman who flourished in a leadership role, especially in male-dominated industries, and who used her position to keep other female " worker bees" down.

20世纪70年代，这种现象已经相当普遍，以致们用“蜂后”这个词一个在领导层、尤其是在男性主导行业领导层快速成长女性，意指她用自己地位压制着其他女性“工蜂”。

Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by transferring into them, before they are laid, fragments of proteins from diseasecausing pathogens.

2015年给出部分答案是，蜂王在产卵前将致病病原体蛋白质片段转移到卵中，从而为卵接种疫苗。

First, there is the mother, or queen bee, which lays the eggs, each in a little cell made of wax.

首先是蜂后, 她居住在蜡室中, 负责产卵。

She called her dog friendly, but also " kind of the queen bee" .

她说她狗狗很友好，但也“有点女王范儿”。

The queen bee was banished, and the hive became stronger.

“蜂后”消失了，“蜂巢”整体力量却变得更强了。

There is never more than one grown-up queen bee in a hive at a time.

蜂窝中不可能存在两只成年蜂后。

The queen bee is much larger than the others.

蜂后体型比其他蜜蜂要大上很多。

Often, these queen bees were rewarded for maintaining the status quo and not promoting other women.

同时，这些“蜂后”通常不会提拔其他女性。

In this sense, queen bee behavior was not just a cause of gender discrimination but also a consequence of that discrimination.

在这个意义上，“蜂后”行为不仅是性别歧视原因之一，也是性别歧视后果。

Both the queen bee and the workers have stings for fighting, but the drones have none.

蜂后与工蜂都长有螫针, 可以用于搏斗, 雄蜂却没有。

This apparently happened when a queen bee got stuck in the back of the car.

这显然是在一只蜂王被困在汽车后部时发生。

When winter begins, all bumblebees die except a few pregnant queen bees.

冬天开始时，除了少数怀孕蜂王外，所有大黄蜂都死了。

Who's the queen bee in this school?

这所学校里女霸主是谁？

So we go back, my brother's a beekeeper, my grandmother's a beekeeper, my granddad's father was a beekeeper and my granddad used to buy his queen bees off Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest.

追溯起，我家族中， 我哥哥是养蜂，我祖母也是养蜂， 我曾祖父同样是养蜂， 而我祖父过去常常从埃德蒙·希拉里爵士那里购买蜂王，希拉里爵士是首位登上珠穆朗玛峰。

The outsiders, of course, thought that Remedios the Beauty had finally succumbed to her irrevocable fate of a queen bee and that her family was trying to save her honor with that tale of levitation.

局外当然认为，美蕾梅黛丝终于屈服于她不可挽回蜂王命运，她家正试图通过悬浮故事挽救她名誉。

And I go over the New York Times spelling bee with my partner to see if we made genius or not and if together we can get the queen bee.

我和我搭档一起复习《纽约时报》拼字比赛，看看我们是否能成为天才，或者能否联手拿到冠军。