1. Subsequent ant researchers have focused on external prompts for behavior.
后来的蚂蚁研究人员把注意力集中在外部的行为提示上。
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2. For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.
例如，字母 A 代表蚂蚁、苹果或斧头。
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3. In the dry season, it could be attacked by another species of ant.
在干燥的季节里，它可能会遭到另一个种类的蚂蚁攻击。
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4. In California, a lack of genetic variation in the Argentine ant has allowed the species to spread widely.
在加利福尼亚，阿根廷蚂蚁由于缺乏基因变异而得以广泛传播。
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5. Therefore, the planned introduction into that region of ant flies, which prey on Loma ants, would benefit public health.
因此，计划引进以洛马蚁为食的蚁蝇进入该地区将有利于公共健康。
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6. The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.
大自然保护协会还向众多入侵物种发起了宣战，从羊群到植物，再到具有攻击性的阿根廷蚁。
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7. It's possible that the cleanest and most highly evolved creatures where this topic is concerned are internal parasites, along with bee, wasp and ant larvae.
在这个话题中，最干净、最高度进化的生物可能是体内寄生虫，以及蜜蜂、黄蜂和蚂蚁幼虫。
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8. For the Saharan silver ant, crawling from their underground nests into the sun's brutal rays to hunt for food, this is the perfect time to seek lunch.
对于从地下的巢穴中爬到炙热的阳光下猎食的撒哈拉银蚁来说，这是寻找午餐的最佳时间。
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9. What this little wood ant is planning to do with this microchip is unkonwn, but how appropriate to say that he appears to have a scientific interest.
还不知道这只小木蚁打算用这种微芯片做什么，不过，说它对科学感兴趣是多么恰当。
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10. If something goes wrong—a hungry lizard prowling around for an ant snack, for instance—then a rush of ants returning without food sends waiting reserves a "Don't go out" signal.
11. As Gordon discovered during her research, there's no one ant making decisions or giving orders.
正如戈登在研究过程中发现的那样，没有一只蚂蚁在做决定或是发号施令。
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12. A very aggressive species of blank ant, the Loma ant, which has recently invaded a certain region, has a venomous sting that is often fatal to humans.
一种非常有攻击性的蚂蚁——洛玛蚂蚁，最近入侵了一个特定的区域，它们的刺有毒，对人类往往是致命的。
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13. A dove heard his cries for help and threw him a leaf, which helped the ant float back to the bank.
一只鸽子听到了蚂蚁的呼救声，就扔给它一片树叶，树叶帮助蚂蚁漂回了岸边。
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14. When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot shaved an ant with a tiny scalpel and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.
博士生昆汀·维洛特用小刀把一只蚂蚁刮了毛再放到加热灯下，蚂蚁的温度上升了。
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15. When one ant bumps into another, it sniffs with its antennae to find out if the other belongs to the same nest and where it has been working.
16. When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot removed the hair from an ant with a tiny knife and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.
当博士生昆汀·威洛用一把小刀从一只蚂蚁身上取走毛发，并把它放在加热灯下的时候，蚂蚁的体温瞬间升高。
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17. The ant is eating leaves.
只蚂蚁正在吃树叶。
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18. The ant is carrying a leaf.
蚂蚁在搬运叶子。
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19. Have you ever stepped on an ant?
你踩过蚂蚁吗？
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20. A biologist at Stanford University showed me that nothing an ant does makes any sense except in terms of the whole colony.
斯坦福大学的一位生物学家告诉我，如果不以整个蚁群为出发点，单只蚂蚁做的任何事情都是没有意义的。
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21. Even more impressively, DNA analysis of the fungi suggests that the ants improve or modify the fungi by regularly swapping and sharing strains with neighbouring ant colonies.
更令人印象深刻的是，真菌的DNA分析表明，蚂蚁通过与邻近的蚁群定期交换和共享菌种来改善或修改真菌。
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22. If you put a stone in the way of an ant, it will go around, over, under or on top, without stopping, until it finds a way to get where it needs to be.
23. Hoelldobler and Wilson's magnificent work for ant lovers, The Ants, describes a supercolony of the ant Formica yessensis on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido.
25. They all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.
他们全部一起出发去度假了，最后来到了一座蚂蚁山。
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26. He listened, and heard an ant-king complaint: "Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies?"
他听着，听到了一个蚂蚁王的抱怨：“为什么人们带着他们笨拙的牲畜，不能远离我们的身体呢？”
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27. From the very beginning, Stuart Leslie Goddard, a.k.a. Adam Ant, knew he was going to be a star.
从一开始，斯图尔特·莱斯利·戈达德，又叫蚂蚁亚当，就知道他将会成为明星。
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28. When the lid of the nest box on an ant colony is raised, a whiff of dead cockroach wafts by.
当蚁群的巢箱盖子被揭开时，一股死蟑螂的气息扑面而来。
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29. Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
米勒参观了一家德州天然气公司，该公司成功地应用了基于蚁群行为的公式来“优化其工厂和卡车的路线”。
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30. They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.
