nectar
nectar 英 [ˈnektə(r)] 美 [ˈnɛktɚ]
n. [植] 花蜜；甘露；神酒；任何美味的饮料
名词复数:nectars
- Delicious, sweet, and special, nectar is the best juice you can imagine. When the ancient Greeks visualized the gods having a party on their Olympian lawns, they saw nectar in their cups.
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- n. [植] 花蜜；甘露；神酒；任何美味的饮料
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1. Bees gather nectar from flowers.
蜜蜂从花朵上采集花蜜。
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2. Upon returning to the hive, they deposit the nectar into pockets, called honeycombs, in the hive’s walls. It is from here that we get honey.
一返回蜂房，它们便将花蜜储存在被称作“六角形蜂窝”的蜂房壁上的小巢中，我们就是从那里采集蜂蜜的。
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3. Adults eschew such prey and typically feed on nectar or pollen, though some adults do not eat at all.
成虫会避免此种捕食方式，典型的以花蜜或花粉为食，虽然某些萤火虫成虫压根不进食。
- nectar (n.) 1550s, from Latin nectar, from Greek nektar, name of the drink of the gods, which is said to be a compound of nek- "death" (from PIE root *nek- (1) "death") + -tar "overcoming," from PIE root *tere- (2) "cross over, pass through, overcome." Meaning "sweet liquid in flowers" first recorded c. 1600.
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