AT THIS time of year Gordon Wardell loves to stand amid the almond blossoms in California’s San Joaquin valley, listening to the “low-pitch, warm, happy hum” of millions of bees.

每年这个时候，戈登•沃代尔都喜欢站在加利福尼亚圣华金山谷里杏仁树盛开的花丛中，聆听数百万只蜜蜂“低沉、温暖、愉快的哼鸣”。

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An old elm before the house was hung with thick clusters of seeds and some bees just out of the hive were flying round it, keeping up a continuous hum.

窗前有棵老榆树，榆钱儿正密，一串串在枝上垂着，有几只刚出巢的蜜蜂，围着榆枝乱飞，不住的嗡嗡的叫着。

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Nowadays, the low hum of the drones has become a familiar sound in Waziristan, where tribesmen call them machay, or red bees.

如今，瓦齐里斯坦的部落居民已经习惯了无人机的低鸣，他们称其为麦凯或红蜜蜂。

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