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BEE

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bee substantiv

1. (entom.) albină (Apis);

drone bee trântor;

working bee albină lucrătoare;

queen bee matcă, regină;

swarm of bees roi de albine;

as busy as a bee harnic ca o albină;

(fig. fam.) to have a bee in one’s bonnet a avea o idee fixă, a avea o păsărică; a fi nebun după ceva;

to have one’s head full of bees, to have bees in the head / brains a visa cu ochii deschişi; a-şi construi castele în Spania;

(despre sunete) like a bee in a bottle ca o albină într-o sticlă, monoton, bâzâit;

(amer. sl.) to put the bee on a cere (insistent) bani cu împrumut.

2. (fig.) om harnic, albină.

3. (amer.) grup de oameni întruniţi pentru a lucra în comun şi a se ajutora între ei; de asemenea, pentru a petrece sau a participa la întreceri sportive; clacă; şezătoare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"Go to the strangers and sting them to death!" commanded the Witch, and the bees turned and flew rapidly until they came to where Dorothy and her friends were walking.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

By studying slow-motion video of the bees and tracking the movement of those on the surface of the cluster, the researchers developed a theory—they believed that the bees, upon feeling pulled from the bees they were holding on to, moved themselves to a place of higher stress.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, Editura Global Info)

Then came the queen of the bees, who had been saved by the little dwarf from the fire, and she tried the lips of all three; but at last she sat upon the lips of the one that had eaten the honey: and so the dwarf knew which was the youngest.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Intriguingly, the colony maintained a healthy performance for several months after treatment had finished, suggesting that it was still immune to infection – even though the original treated bees would have died off and been replaced by new generations.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

"Take out my straw and scatter it over the little girl and the dog and the Lion," he said to the Woodman, "and the bees cannot sting them."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Next they came to a bees’-nest in a hollow tree, and there was so much honey that it ran down the trunk; and the two brothers wanted to light a fire under the tree and kill the bees, so as to get their honey.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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