Have you ever stepped on an ant?
你踩过蚂蚁吗？
蚂蚁在搬运叶子。
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。
The ant seized the bough, and swam back to the shore.
蚂蚁抓住树枝，游回了岸边。
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。
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。
They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.
他们提出了一个基于蚁群自组织原则的计算机模型。
When the virtual trees are big enough, Ant Forest will plant real trees somewhere in the world.
当虚拟树足够大时，蚂蚁森林将在世界的某个地方种植真正的树。
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。
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。
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。
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。
If an ant finds an outstanding hole—such as the inside of an acorn or a rock crevice—it recruits another scout to check it out.
如果一只蚂蚁找到了一个出色的洞穴——比如橡子或岩石裂缝的内部——它就会叫来另一只侦察蚁对洞穴进行检查。
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。
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。
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。
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”。
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.
《蚂蚁》是 Hoelldobler和Wilson为蚂蚁爱好者所创作的杰出作品，这部作品描述了北海道石狩湾海岸上的一个超级蚁群——石狩红蚁。
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。
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.
如果出了什么问题——比如，一只饥饿的蜥蜴在四处寻找蚂蚁作为零食——那么一群没有食物的蚂蚁就会匆匆归来，给等待的蚂蚁发出“不要出去”的信号。
He explains, "If ant colonies had worked out a reliable way to identify the best routes between their nest and food sources, the company managers figured, why not take advantage of that knowledge?"
他解释说：“如果蚁群已经找到了一种可靠的方法来确定蚁巢和食物源之间的最佳路线，那么公司经理们就会想，为什么不利用这种知识呢？”
Ant Forest plants real trees for all Chinese people.
蚂蚁森林为所有中国人种下真正的树。
I chose the biggest ant in the yard and followed it.
我选了院子里最大的一只蚂蚁，跟着它走。
Ant Financial has planted more than ten million real trees.
蚂蚁金服已经实地种植了1000多万棵树。
In "Ant Forest", people start by planting a virtual (虚拟的) tree.
在“蚂蚁森林”里，人们从种植一棵虚拟的树开始。
If I could follow the same ant for ten minutes, I'd get a prize.
如果我能跟着同一只蚂蚁十分钟，我就会得到奖励。
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