About how much honey will a single worker bee produce in her lifetime?

一只工蜂一生能产多少蜜？

There are worker bees, drone bees and the Queen bee.

有工蜂，雄蜂和蜂后。

They are much larger than the worker bees.

它们比工蜂大得多。

In a honeybee hive, female worker bees are actually the only ones who can sting.

在蜜蜂蜂巢中，雌性工蜂实际上是唯一能够蜇人的蜜蜂。

Some worker bees tend to the hive but take frequent breaks.

一些工蜂照顾蜂巢，但会频繁休息。

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.

冬季来临时，除了几只怀孕的蜂王能够幸，所有的大黄蜂都会死去。在春季，些蜂王会开始独自筑巢，繁殖工蜂，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代，种现象已经相当普遍，以致人们用“蜂后”词来描述一在领导层、尤其是在男性主导行业的领导层快速成长的女性，意指她用自己的地位压制着其他的女性“工蜂”。

Every worker bee produces less than a 10th of a teaspoon of honey over the course of a summer, but together 50,000 bees can sustain a hive.

每只工蜂在一夏天里生产的蜂蜜不到一茶匙的十分之一，但5万只蜜蜂加在一起就可以维持一蜂巢的运转。

Researchers found that worker bees who care for the brood get less sleep than their sisters, because bee babies produce chemicals that keep their caretakers awake.

研究人员发现，照顾幼蜂的工蜂比它们的姐妹们睡得少，因为蜜蜂宝宝会产生化学物质，让照顾它们的工蜂保持清醒。

The hornets loiter outside bee hives and gruesomely decapitate emerging worker bees, dismembering the unfortunate victims and feeding the body parts to their larvae.

大黄蜂在蜂巢外徘徊，令人毛骨悚然地斩杀新出现的工蜂，肢解不幸的受害者并将身体部分喂给它们的幼虫。

If they get into a hive, they tear the heads off worker bees and the hive mostly dies.

如果它们进入蜂巢，它们会把工蜂的头扯下来，那蜂巢大部分的蜜蜂都会死亡。

In all likelihood, their ancestors used Algarrobo raisin since many worker bees have been found trapped in it.

非常有可能的是它们的祖先就使用角豆树的树脂因为发现了很多困在琥珀里的工蜂。

Office technology, meanwhile, now allows a few to do what once required a whole hive of worker bees.

同时，如今，办公科技使得几人便可以做曾经需要一群人才能完成的工作。

Depending on the time of year and the weather outside, worker bees may have to fly for miles before they find the right flowers.

取决于一的时节和天气情况，工蜂可能要飞几英里才能找到合适的花朵。

In these colonies, a queen lays the eggs, and worker bees called nurses care for the resulting hatchlings.

在些蜂群中，蜂王产卵，被称为看护的工蜂负责照料孵化出来的幼蜂。

The worker bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers and bring it back to the hive.

工蜂从花朵上收集花蜜和花粉，然后把它带回蜂巢。

They can be a CEO or a chief financial officer or a regular worker bee.

他们可以担任首席执行官、首席财务官，或是普通员工。

It makes you a worker bee and that's assembly lines get replaced by automation.

它让你变成了一名工蜂，而生产线则被自动化取代了。

People like to see you as a person and not just this worker bee.

人们喜欢看到你是一人，而不仅仅是一勤劳的打工人。

That's why they have the worker bee mentality.

就是为什么他们拥有工蜂心态。