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Picture a small black-and-yellow insect flying in and out of flowers, never still: it takes nectar from the flowers, turns it into honey, and stings if it feels threatened. Almost everything else the word does hangs on that picture — the constant busyness, the buzzing you can't ignore, the crowd of them working together.

可以想成一隻黑黃相間的小蟲在花叢間鑽進鑽出、一刻不停:牠採花蜜、把花蜜變成蜂蜜,覺得受威脅時會螫人。這個字其他的說法更多收起可以想成一隻黑黃相間的小蟲在花叢間鑽進鑽出、一刻不停:牠採花蜜、把花蜜變成蜂蜜,覺得受威脅時會螫人。這個字其他的說法,多半是抓住這隻蟲給人的幾個印象——停不下來的忙、擋不掉的嗡嗡聲、一群一起做事——再固定成片語。

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

Beenoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with Barnet Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Beename

  • 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Beatrice.

  • 2

    A surname.

beenoun詞源 1/ˈbiː/

  • 1

    A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.

    • His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].
    • An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
  • 2

    informalAny stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

beenoun詞源 2/ˈbiː/

  • 1

    A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.

    • geography bee
  • 2

    A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.

    • The cellar […] was dug by a bee in a single day.
    • There was but little variation in types of buildings in the pioneer period: house, church, store, barn and mill were usually much alike except in size, and a raising bee was the ordinary means of their erection.

beenoun詞源 3/ˈbiː/

  • 1

    obsoleteA ring or torque; a bracelet.

    • And kyng Arthur gaf her a ryche bee of gold and soo she departed
    • ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...

beenoun詞源 5/ˈbiː/

  • 1

    The name of the Latin script letter B/b.

    • "The ee-vee-ee-ar-en-oh-ee-ell-blank-bee-ell-oh-ess-ess-oh-em-blank-en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar is especially dee-ee-ell-eye-cee-eye-oh-you-ess." Our friends thanked the spelling bee for his help and then he buzzed off.

beenoun詞源 6/ˈbiː/

  • 1

    nauticaltransportAny of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。