VOA慢速英语:Plant Fungicide Might Harm Honeybees

1. When a honeybee lands on a flower in plant, pollen sticks to its legs.

stick to 遵守；保留
例句：The government must stick to its promises.
政府必须坚守它自己的承诺。

2. When the bee lands on another flower, some of the pollen falls off and fertilizes the second plant.

fall off 减少；跌落
例句：I never fall off my bike.
我从来不会从车上摔下来。

3. Mr Ohlinger thinks widespread bee death is result of several things happening at once.

at once 立即；一起
例句：Everybody realized at once that this was a mistake.
马上每个人都意识到这是个错误。

4. What I felt it was, was a compilation of a lot of little things.

a lot of 许多的；诸多
例句：Clothing requires a lot of fine tuning.
制衣业需要做许多细致的工作。

5. And I don't know many of the things that they're putting out right now that anybody would come out of a bath in for any length of time and go, ‘Wow, that was great, I feel much better!'"

put out 出版；扑灭
例句：The marines and others managed to put out the fire.
海军陆战队士兵和周围的人一同把火扑灭了。

6. This makes the search for an answer to their death especially urgent for Mr VanEngelsdorp's team.

search for 搜索，搜寻
例句：The unemployed will search for jobs online.
失业者可以在网上寻找工作。