n. ergate
misc. worker-priest ; worken ant
在提倡这种方法时，黛博拉·戈登引用了一些实验，在这些实验中，对蚁群构成的干预扰乱了工蚁的活动。
In advocating this approach, Deborah Gordon cites experiments in which intervention in a colony's makeup perturbed worker activity.
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。
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.
据报道，这个“特大城市”由3.6亿只工蚁和100万名蚁后组成，他们居住在4500个相互连接的巢穴中，这些巢穴分布在2.7平方公里的土地上。
This 'megalopolis' was reported to be composed of 360 million workers and a million queens living in 4,500 interconnected nests across a territory of 2.7 square kilometres.
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