喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/wɑːsp/ · /wɒsp/黃蜂

    A thin flying insect with black and yellow stripes that can sting you. Wasps look a little like bees, but they are thinner and smoother, and they do not make honey.

    示範例句 · Example

    A wasp landed on the picnic table, so Leo sat very still.

    逐字一隻黃蜂停在野餐桌上，所以里歐坐得非常不動。

    「wasp」是黃蜂：身上黑黃相間、腰很細，尾巴有針，可以螫人。台灣的學習者最常把 wasp 跟 bee（蜜蜂）混在一起，因為中文兩種都叫「蜂」；英文分得很清楚——bee 圓圓胖胖、身上有絨毛、採花蜜做蜂蜜，wasp 比較細、外表光滑，不做蜂蜜。可以想成 wasp 就是「細腰、光滑、會螫人的那種蜂」，只要講到 honey（蜂蜜），用的一定是 bee。

    常見搭配

    • a wasps' nest

      黃蜂窩

      the paper-like home that a group of wasps build together

      The gardener found a wasps' nest in the old shed.

    • a wasp sting

      黃蜂螫的傷口

      the sore mark a wasp leaves when it stings you

      A wasp sting hurts for a while, but it usually gets better fast.

    • be stung by a wasp

      被黃蜂螫到

      to be hurt by a wasp's sting

      Ren was stung by a wasp while he was picking apples.

    • wasps buzz around something

      黃蜂繞著某樣東西嗡嗡飛

      wasps fly around something in circles, making a low sound

      Wasps buzzed around the fruit bowl all afternoon.

core核心畫面

You can picture a wasp as a bee's sharper, leaner cousin: the same black-and-yellow warning colours, but the body is narrow, smooth and hard, in at the waist, and it carries a sting it can use again and again. Nothing sweet comes from it — no honey, no fuzzy pollen-dusted coat. Just the bright stripes that say 'keep away'.

一隻「蜜蜂的瘦版親戚」：一樣是黑黃相間的警告色，但身體細長光滑、腰身束得很窄，尾端那根針可以一螫再螫。牠不採蜜、不釀蜜，身上也沒有蜜蜂那層毛茸茸的絨毛——只有那身鮮明的條紋在說「別靠近」。夏天在戶外吃東西時繞著飲料和肉打轉的，多半就是牠。

複數 wasps

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

waspnoun詞源 1/wɒsp/

  • 1

    Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

  • 2

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

  • 3

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

  • 4

    A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.

waspverb詞源 1/wɒsp/

  • 1

    To move like a wasp; to buzz.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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