ants

An army of ants marched across the path .

一大群蚂蚁浩浩荡荡地穿过小径。

Ants scurried around the pile of rotting food .

蚂蚁围着那堆腐烂的食物跑来跑去。

The kitchen was infested with ants .

厨房里到处是蚂蚁。

Every so often the kitchen would be invaded by ants .

厨房常常会遭到大批蚂蚁的进犯。

The mild winter has created the ideal conditions for an ant population explosion .

暖冬为蚁群数量激增创造了理想的条件。

His industry and persistence suggest that he was an ant in a previous incarnation .

他的勤奋与坚持表明他前世是只蚂蚁。

Ants swarmed up out of the ground and covered her shoes and legs .

蚂蚁从地下成群地钻出来，爬满了她的鞋子和双腿。

Out of beams and cracks came troops of beetles , ants and spiders .

从横梁上和裂缝里爬出来了一群群甲虫、蚂蚁和蜘蛛。

There is a clear division of labour in ants .

蚂蚁间有明确的分工。

Ants store up food against the winter .

蚂蚁储存食物以防冬令。

One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke .

千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。

The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants .

这棵死树根被蚂蚁唼了。

Ants and flies are insects .

蚂蚁和苍蝇都是昆虫。

They make experiments with ants .

他们用蚂蚁做实验。

The ant is a social insect .

蚂蚁是一种群居昆虫。

Even the lowly cricket and ant cling to life , let alone a human being .

蝼蚁尚且偷生，何况人乎？

She had ants in her pants ever since she won that ticket to bermuda .

她自从赢得那张前往百慕大的机票后一直急于启程。

He was waiting for the results of the elections , restless as an ant on a hot pan .

他等着选举的结果，像热锅上的蚂蚁。

Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young .

梅里安注意到这些蚂蚁是如何把地下的叶子带给它们的幼蚁。

In the same plate , Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time .

在同一幅插图里，梅里安首次描绘了切叶蚁。

But in the same drawing , she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants .

但在冋一幅画中，她把行军蚁和切叶蚁错误地混在了一起。

And she wouldn 't have known this at the time , but the ants use the leaves to farm fungi underground to feed their developing babies .

她当时不可能知道这一点，蚂蚁使用树叶在地下种植菌类来喂养正在发育的幼蚁。

Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders , ants building bridges with their bodies and other details .

梅里安关于巨型食鸟蜘蛛、用身体搭桥的蚂蚁以及其他细节的描绘是正确的。

" In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night , " she wrote in the description .

“美国有一夜之间就能把整棵树啃得像扫帚柄一样光秃秃的大蚂蚁，”她在描述中写道。

The Nature Conservancy has    declared   war on a multitude of invasive species here , from sheep to plants to the   aggressive   Argentine ant .

美国大自然保护协会还向众多入侵物种发起了宣战，从羊群到植物再到具有攻击性的阿根廷蚁。

The image , which also contained novel descriptions of ants , fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it .

这幅画中还包含了对蚂蚁的新颖描述，它吸引了欧洲观众，他们更关心的是展现在他们面前的奇异故事，而不是绘制者的性别。

There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide .

世界上的蚂蚁数量十分庞大。

In fact , when it comes to the art of war , ants have no equal .

事实上,说起战术,蚂蚁是所向无敌的。

For animals their size , ants have been astonishingly successful , largely due to their wonderful social behavior .

对于体型如此之大的动物来说,蚂蚁取得了惊人的成功,这主要得益于它们出色的社交行为。

When an ant finds food , it produces a pheromone that will lead others straight to where the food is .

当蚂蚁找到食物时,它会产生一种信息素,这种信息素会直接引导其他蚂蚁找到食物。