Ants work together to capture prey that is bigger than they are; they can call up extra workers when an abundant food source is discovered; they can defend a colony by repelling invaders.
蚂蚁一起工作去扑食比它们大的猎物。一旦发现丰富的食物来源，他们就会召集其它蚂蚁。
In a twelve-year programme of work, Ryabko and Reznikova have found evidence that ants can transmit very complex messages.
在一项长达12年的研究中，利亚布克和列兹尼科娃发现了蚂蚁可以传递非常复杂信息的证据。
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。
The new aspiring professionals are known as "ants" because of both their eagerness to work and a willingness to cram together in poor living conditions.
这一新的雄心勃勃的人群被称为“蚁族”，因为他们对工作机会的渴望，并愿意挤在一起，忍受恶劣的生活条件。
“Like ants, they gather in colonies, sometimes underground in basements, and work long and hard, ” said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing.
北京人民大学社会学教授周晓正说：“就像蚂蚁一样，他们群居在一起，有时候住在地下室，他们工作辛苦而漫长”。
And she discovered that about 50 percent of the other ants do not do any work at all.
她还发现，另有大约百分之五十的蚂蚁根本不会做任何工作。
Grasshopper: Look at those Ants. What are they doing? Why are they working so hard? It is too hot to work today. They must be crazy.
蚱蜢：看这些蚂蚁。他们在干什么？他们干嘛这么努力工作呀？今天太热，不适合工作。他们一定是疯了。
"Like ants, they gather in colonies, sometimes underground in basements, and work long and hard, " said Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at Renmin University in Beijing.
北京人民大学社会学教授周晓正说：“就像蚂蚁一样，他们群居在一起，有时候住在地下室，他们工作辛苦而漫长”。
Everyone worked hard, but, like ants, but the value of working there? Just for living expenses, and so all out to work?
所有人辛勤地工作，像蚂蚁一样，可是，工作的价值却在那里呢？仅仅是为了得到生活的费用，值得这么整日劳碌地拼命吗？
The Queen Ant tells the Worker Ants to work harder.
蚁后要工蚁们更努力地工作。
Thee Queen Ant tells the Worker Ants to work harder.
蚁后要工蚁们更努力地工作。
It will work, if we were bees or ants, but we're not. We're not a collective species. Heck even bees and ants need a queen.
如果我们是蜜蜂或者蚂蚁，它会行得通，但是我们不是蜜蜂或者蚂蚁，我们不是集体物种，而且甚至蜜蜂或者蚂蚁都需要蜂王蚁王。
They are known as "ants" for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions and the seeming futility of their efforts.
他们被称作“蚁族”，因为他们乐于勤奋工作，但生活条件却很差，而且努力往往收效甚微。
I thought the ants would be tired from their daylong work.
我认为这些蚂蚁会因为成天劳动而累了。
Shortly after the chilly ants were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels.
当生性怕冷的蚂蚁被放进这个玻璃建筑后不久，它们就开始挖地道了。
Flik is a pavement ant with grand ideas on how to improve life, but he is constantly put down by other, more serious ants for his ideas and inventions that do not seem to work.
飞力是一只在改进生活方面具有伟大想法的铺道蚁，但它那些似乎不起作用的想法和发明总是遭到其他更为“庄重严肃”的蚂蚁们的贬低和打击。
However, he decided that the first ants would have died in vain if he didn't finish the work. Thus, he continued and achieved it.
后来他不想让之前杀死的蚂蚁死的毫无意义才重新开始直到将其完成。
A small red ants also climbed from below to her head feel like work with the small hammer beating calyx, heard inside-out small lots were startled, quickly ran away.
一只红颜色的小蚂蚁从下边也爬上去，她使劲用头顶的小锤子敲打花萼，听到了里边传出来一些细小的喊叫，受到了惊吓，赶紧跑开了。
A third group of still larger ants do the construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest.
更大些的第三组蚂蚁做建筑工，另负责把户外的鲜树叶拾进巢穴；
They're known as "ants," for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions, and the seeming futility of their efforts.
他们被称为“蚁族”，由于他们乐于勤劳事变，而糊口前提却极其糟糕，并且本身的全力好像生效甚微。
At the group level, perhaps we will learn to work together, like ants tending an aphid farm.
在群体层面上，或许我们应该如同蚂蚁照顾他们的蚜虫一样，学会共同协作。
At the group level, perhaps we will learn to work together, like ants tending an aphid farm.
在群体层面上，或许我们应该如同蚂蚁照顾他们的蚜虫一样，学会共同协作。
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