Ant

(noun.) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.

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• Huber to be a slave-making ant. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Certainly every time he came in contact with the industries--silk, wine, beer, wool--his scientific insight, Ant?us-like, seemed to revive. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to speculate how so wonderful an instinct could have been perfected. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This ant is absolutely dependent on its slaves; without their aid, the species would certainly become extinct in a single year. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Smith's offer of numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Once in camp I put a log on top of the fire and it was full of ants. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the centre where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A few ants were in this desert place, but merely to spend the summer. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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