Bees have been around for 110 million years or so, but it was only a couple of thousand years ago that we started to grasp their potential for helping humanity.

蜜蜂存在了一亿一千年左右，而我们开始掌握它们帮助人类的潜能只有几千年。

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Bees have been around for 110 million years or so, but it was only a couple of thousand years ago that we started to grasp their potential for helping humanity Photo: getty.

蜜蜂存在了一亿一千年左右，而我们开始掌握它们帮助人类的潜能只有几千年。

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In a picture: a picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say at least.

图画：一张图片能顶上一千句话，或者，也有人说，最少一千句。

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Denmark is highest at 72%, despite having had that nasty royal family problem a thousand or so years ago.

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This is the Community Academy, one of a thousand or so private schools that have opened up around Taiwan in the past two years to revive the teaching of the Chinese classics.

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