高三英語課文
Unit 22 Bees
1 . Some live in large groups like the honey bee, and make their nests in trees or holes in the rocks.有些蜂如蜜蜂是群居在一起，在樹上或巖洞裡築巢。
2 . But then another question came up.但是另一個問題出現了。
3 . Centuries ago, the word beeline was made to describe this thin line of bees flying through the air.幾百年前，有人用beeline 這個詞來描寫蜜蜂在空中飛行的細窄路線。
4 . So he set up two feeding places.因此，他建造了兩個餵食點。
5 . Things were clear now.事情現在清楚了。
6 . They also found out that bees fly a maximum distance of 3.2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place.他們還發現蜜蜂從蜂箱到餵食點的最大飛行距離是3。2公里。
7 . The wagging dance meant that food was far away.搖擺舞表示食物在遠處。
8 . Among the different types of bee, it is the honey bee that has most interested scientists because of the language they use to communicate with each other.在這些不同種類的蜂中，因為蜜蜂能用"語言相互傳遞信息，科學家們對它們最感興趣。
9 . One was close to the hive.一個靠近蜂箱。
10 . Soon, the bees in the hive flew out.They flew right to the dish.很快，蜂箱裡的蜜蜂飛了出來，它們徑直朝碟子飛去。
11 . After a short time a line of bees fly to and from the hive like a thin stream.過不了一會兒，一隊蜜蜂像一條小溪一樣在蜂箱和餵食點之間來往飛行。
12 . 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個裝有糖水和蜜蜂的玻璃碟子。
13 . He marked all the bees that came to the nearby feeding place blue, and all the bees that went to the faraway place were marked red.他把所有飛來近處餵食點的蜜蜂標上藍色，飛往遠處餵食點的蜜蜂標上紅色。
14 . With a stopwatch, they counted how many times the bees repeated the dance during one minute.他們用秒錶記錄蜜蜂在一分鐘內重複舞蹈的次數。
15 . After working with bees for many years, Professor Von Frisch was puzzled by something he had noticed again and again.在和蜜蜂打了多年的交道後，馮·弗裡施教授對他反覆注意到的事感到迷惑。
16 . When he placed little dishes of honey on a table, bees soon same.當他把裝有蜂蜜的小碟放在桌上時，蜜蜂很快就飛來。
17 . They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was.他們發現離餵食點越遠，蜜蜂就跳得越慢。
18 . 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線部分與上午的不一樣。
19 . All the bees that had been at the distant feeding place were doing a completely different dance, a wagging dance.所有在近處點的蜜蜂在跳一種完全不同的舞蹈，一種搖擺舞。
20 . He set out to discover whether the wagging dance showed direction.他開始著手找出搖擺舞是否表示方向。
21 . All the bees that had been at the nearby place were doing the circling dance.所有在近處點的蜜蜂在跳一種完全不同的舞蹈，一種搖擺舞。
22 . Other types of bee make their nests in holes in the ground.其他種類的蜂在地穴裡築巢。
23 . There are many different varieties of bee.有很多不同種類的蜂。
24 . But what else?但它還傳遞別的什麼呢？
25 . For his lifentime's work in studying the communication of animals, including honey bees, Professor Karl von Frisch was given a Nobel Prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists. He died in 1982.由於卡爾·馮·弗裡施教授一生都在研究蜜蜂在內的動物之間信息的傳遞，他和另外兩位科學家在1973被授予一項諾貝爾獎。他於1982年去世。
26 . Again the bees flew right to the dish.蜜蜂又一次徑直向碟子飛去。
27 . When the bees came back to the hive, Von Frisch saw a curious sight.當蜜蜂返回蜂箱時，馮·弗裡施看到一個奇特的現象。
28 . Then Von Frisch moved the dish to the east of the hive and waited for a marked bee to feed.然後，馮·弗裡施把碟子移到蜂箱的西邊，等待有標記的蜜蜂來吃。
29 . He thought they needed to know the direction to it.它們還需要知道去那裡的方向。
30 . There are also other varieties that do not live in groups at all.還有別的類型的蜂，它們全然不過群體生活。
31 . As soon as one bee discovered the honey, many more came to it one after another in a short time.一旦有一隻蜜蜂發現了蜂蜜，在短時間內就有許許多多的蜜蜂一個接一個地飛向那裡。
32 . So another astonishing fact came to light.於是又發現了一個驚人的事實。
33 . The dancer ran in a straight line, wagging from side to side.跳舞的蜜蜂左右搖擺地沿直線飛。
34 . To answer this question, von Frisch and his coworkers set up a feeding place close to the hive.為了回答這個問題，馮·弗裡施和他的同伴在蜂箱附近建起了一個餵食點。
35 . But that was not all.它一再重複這些圓圈。
36 . To find out, Von Frisch built special hives, each with only one honeycomb.為了查明真相，馮·弗裡施建造了特殊的蜂箱，每個蜂箱裡僅有一個蜂窩。
37 . The other was much farther away from the hive.另一個遠離蜂箱。
38 . Next Von Frisch thought that bees needed to know more than just the distance to a faraway place.接著，馮·弗裡施認為蜜蜂不僅需要知道到遠的餵食點的距離。
39 . To his astonishment, the bee began to perform a dance on the surface of the honeycomb.馮·弗裡施就透過玻璃進行觀察。
40 . How did the bees know exactly in which diection to fly?蜜蜂是怎樣確切地知道朝哪個方向飛呢？
41 . It kept repeating the steps over and over.蜜蜂一而再，再而三地重複它的"舞步。
42 . Then it turned in a semicircle, ran straight again, and turned in another semicircle to the opposite side.然後轉一個半圈，再沿直線飛，再朝反方向轉個半圈。
43 . It seemed that one bee was able to communicate the news of food to other bees in its hive.似乎一隻蜜蜂能夠把食物的信息傳遞給蜂箱裡的其他蜜蜂。
44 . Back at the hive they watched the wagging dance closely.他們回到蜂箱旁，仔細觀察搖擺舞。
45 . Then they slowly moved it farther and farther away.然後，他們慢慢地把它移得越來越遠。
46 . Professor Karl von Frisch, an Austrian scientist, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways honey bees communicate in their dark hives.卡爾·馮·弗裡施教授，一位澳大利亞科學家，一生中花了許多年的時間來研究蜜蜂在暗巢裡互傳信息的有趣方法。
47 . The development of the modern beehive in 1851 made it possible to design experiments to research the language of honey bees.1851年現代蜂箱研製出來後，這才有可能來設計實驗，研究蜜蜂的語言。
48 . When honey bees have discovered a feeding place, they fly directly to it from the hive.當蜜蜂發現一個餵食點時，它們從蜂箱直接飛往那裡。
49 . The wagging dance of the honey bee, therefore, did show the direction of a feeding place.如果餵食地點背離太陽，搖擺舞的直線部分就朝下。因此，蜜蜂的搖擺舞的確表示餵食點的方向。
50 . They trooped behind the first dancer, copying its movements.它們成群結隊跟在第一隻跳舞的蜜蜂后面，模仿著它的動作。