Husbands often get ants in their pants while their wives are getting ready to go out.

当妻子在外出前梳洗打扮的时候，她们的丈夫总是等得不耐烦，坐立不安。

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The way they swarm or flock together does not usually get good press coverage either: marching like worker ants might be a common simile for city commuters, but it's a damning, not positive, image.

它们蜂拥或聚集在一起的方式通常不会得到媒体的正面报道：城市的通勤者往往会被比喻成像工蚁一样行进，但这种比喻是一个不佳的、负面的形象。

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"When these ants bring food back to the nest, they lay a pheromone trail that tells other ants to go get more food," Harper explains.

“当这些蚂蚁将食物带到蚁巢时，它们会在途中留下追踪信息素，这样其它蚂蚁也能去找到更多的食物”，哈普尔解释道。

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Only after World War I did American investors get the ants out of their pants and begin holding stocks for more than a year at a time.

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"You get attacked in the night by biting ants and cockroaches running around, " he yawns and smiles as he tells me his story.

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