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/wɑːsp/ · /wɒsp/
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.
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複數 wasps
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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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料9 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。
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).
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
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A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.
waspverb詞源 1/wɒsp/
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To move like a wasp; to buzz.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。