Scattered throughout the novel are some odd events: blizzards, floods, fires, dying bees.

小说中处处充满着古怪的意象：暴风雪、洪水、火灾、垂死的蜜蜂等等。

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Scattered throughout the novel are some odd events: blizzards, floods, fires, dying bees.

小说中充斥着古怪的事件：暴风雪、洪水、大火、垂死的蜜蜂。

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Instead of the cleanly glued-up floor, swept by the bees' wings, there are now bits of wax, excrement, dying bees feebly kicking, and dead bees lying not cleared away on the floor.

再不见涂了一层蜡并由蜂翅扇得干干净净的底板，在底板只有蜂房的碎块，粪便，半死的偶尔伸伸腿的蜜蜂及死后而来消除的蜜蜂。

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Scattered throughout the novel are some odd events: blizzards, floods, fires, dying bees.

ECONOMIST: New fiction 1

The researchers reckon that the reason why so many honey bees are dying is down to a combination of factors that are found only, so far, in America.

ECONOMIST: A virus may help explain colony collapse disorder

Across America, bees are dying.

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