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自给自足 餐厅养蜜蜂供应蜂蜜

2011-09-05来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. High up on the rooftop of the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Washington, executive sous chef Ian Bens and executive pastry chef Aron Weber are tending to honeybees.

tend to有...的倾向
例句:Modern furniture design tends to simplicity.
现代家具设计越来越简单。

2. "All these bees have been out getting nectar and now they’re coming in and they want to get back in the hive,” says Bens.

come in进来, 进入; 来到, 到达
例句:The door opened and the teacher came in.
门开了, 老师走了进来。
get back 回来, 回家
例句:What time will you get back?
你什么时候回来?

3. They estimate about 60,000 to 90,000 honeybees take up residence in each hive at the height of nectar flow, which is from May through late July.

take up占去
例句:This thing takes up all my attention.
这件事占用我所有的注意力。

4. Each hive is made up of a number of wooden boxes which are stacked one on top of the other.

be made up of由…组成
例句:The audience was made up of very young children.
观众由小孩子们组成。

5. As each comb is filled with honey, the bees seal it with wax, and continue to move higher up the hive, filling new frames of honeycomb.

be filled with充满着
例句:The hall was filled with persons welcoming him.
大厅里挤满了欢迎他的人。

6. The beeswax will later be used to create natural skin products like lip balm, sunscreen and facial scrubs for the hotel's VIP guests.

be used to do被用来做……
例句:Charcoal is used to filter water.
木炭是用来过滤水的。

7. “What we’re going to do now is we have both frames in there, and we’re going to start spinning it, as we spin, the honey is going to go down the outside and drip down to the bottom,” Weber says.

go down 沉下; 落下; 降低
例句:The plane went down in flames.
飞机着火坠落。

8. This afternoon’s extraction yields about 22 kilos of fresh honey which the Fairmont chefs will start incorporating into their menu.

incorporate into使成为…的一部分
例句:They incorporated his proposals into their plan.
他们把他的建议纳入他们的计划。

9. Since Bens and Weber set up their hives, other hotels across the U.S. and around the world have been inspired to turn to beekeeping as a healthy and environmentally sustainable alternative for fresh, local honey.

set up建立, 创立, 竖立
例句:Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。
turn to (把注意力等)转向
例句:More and more people turn to computer science.
愈来愈多的人从事计算机科学研究。