Word
honeybee
蜜蜂
a social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
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social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
社会性蜜蜂,常被驯养以生产蜂蜜
社会性蜜蜂,常被驯养以生产蜂蜜
In use
The honeybee landed on a yellow flower and collected nectar.
Beekeepers often wear protective suits when they handle honeybees.
A single honeybee can visit thousands of flowers in one day.
a honeybee
honeybee 是可数名词，指单只蜜蜂时用 a honeybee。
A honeybee landed on the flower.
一只蜜蜂落在花上。
honeybees
复数 honeybees 常用来泛指蜜蜂这一类昆虫。
Honeybees gather nectar from flowers.
蜜蜂从花上采集花蜜。
honeybee + noun
honeybee 可作定语修饰名词，如 honeybee population。
The honeybee population is declining.
蜜蜂种群数量正在下降。
Common mistakes
Honeybee is an insect.A honeybee is an insect.
英语中可数名词单数不能单独使用，前面需加冠词 a/an 或 the；汉语没有冠词，所以容易漏掉。改为 a honeybee 表示‘一只蜜蜂’。
There are many honeybee.There are many honeybees.
many 后接可数名词复数，honeybee 的复数是 honeybees；汉语名词没有复数变化，所以容易漏掉 -s。
The honeybee fly from flower to flower.The honeybee flies from flower to flower.
主语 The honeybee 是第三人称单数，一般现在时谓语动词要加 -s 变为 flies；汉语动词无词形变化，所以容易漏掉。
Connections
Collocations
- honeybee colony
- 蜜蜂群落
- A honeybee colony can contain tens of thousands of workers.一个蜜蜂群落可包含数万只工蜂。
- honeybee hive
- 蜂箱；蜜蜂蜂巢
- The beekeeper inspected the honeybee hive for signs of disease.养蜂人检查蜂箱是否有生病迹象。
- honeybee pollination
- 蜜蜂授粉
- Many crops depend on honeybee pollination for successful yields.许多作物依靠蜜蜂授粉才能获得好收成。
- honeybee population
- 蜜蜂种群
- Honeybee populations have declined sharply in recent decades.近几十年来蜜蜂种群数量急剧下降。
- honeybee queen
- 蜂王
- The honeybee queen lays up to two thousand eggs a day.蜂王每天最多产两千粒卵。
Pop culture & quotes
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：honey(蜂蜜) + bee(蜂)，抱着蜂蜜罐的蜂就是蜜蜂。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话、科普文章 honeybee 是普通常用词，通常用于日常对话和科普文章中，正式程度为中性；与 bee 相比，honeybee 更具体指产蜜的蜜蜂。
Grammar Note
复数形式为 honeybees。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine rhymes with the final stressed syllable of honeybee (/biː/): bee (/biː/), be (/biː/), see (/siː/), and tree (/triː/). Maybe ends with the same letters be, but its final syllable is unstressed /bi/, so it does not rhyme. The beginning honey (/ˈhʌni/) is also a lookalike but does not rhyme because it ends in /ni/.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.