And the bee, the queen bee. Literally.

真正来说这个蜜蜂是蜂后。

The queen bee lays all the eggs.

蜂后产卵。

The queen bee is much larger than the others.

蜂后的体型比其他蜜蜂要大上很多。

The queen bee was banished, and the hive became stronger.

“蜂后”消失了，“蜂巢”的整体力量却变得更强了。

Or that the queen bee can lay over 1,000 eggs a day?

或者蜂王一天能下1000多个蛋？

She called her dog friendly, but also " kind of the queen bee" .

她说她的狗狗很友好，但也“有点女王范儿”。

There is never more than one grown-up queen bee in a hive at a time.

蜂窝中不可能存在两只成年蜂后。

Both the queen bee and the workers have stings for fighting, but the drones have none.

蜂后与工蜂都长有螫针, 可以用于搏斗, 雄蜂却没有。

Often, these queen bees were rewarded for maintaining the status quo and not promoting other women.

同时，这些“蜂后”通常不会提拔其他女性。

First, there is the mother, or queen bee, which lays the eggs, each in a little cell made of wax.

首先是蜂后, 她居住在蜡室中, 负责产卵。

In this sense, queen bee behavior was not just a cause of gender discrimination but also a consequence of that discrimination.

在这个意义上，“蜂后”的行为不仅是性别歧视的原因之一，也是性别歧视的后果。

When winter begins, all bumblebees die except a few pregnant queen bees.

冬天开始时，除了少数怀孕的蜂王外，所有大黄蜂都死了。

You want to go after the queen bee herself?

你要调查那个蜂王?

The queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs each day.

蜂王每天产下约 1,500 个卵。

This apparently happened when a queen bee got stuck in the back of the car.

这显然是在一只蜂王被困在汽车后部时发生的。

Queen bees internalized the low status of women and in order to feel worthy themselves wanted only to associate with men.

“蜂后”们已经从内心接受了女性地位低下的现状。为了感觉自己更有价值，她们只愿意和男性打交道。

Then they bring it back to the nest for the queen bee.

然后他们把它带回蜂王的巢穴。

Since only the queen bee has the ability to reproduce, a worker bee's self-sacrifice helps ensure that the colony— and their genes— will prevail.

由于只有蜂王有繁殖能力，工蜂的自我牺牲有助于确保蜂群及其基因获胜。

Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by transferring into them, before they are laid, fragments of proteins from diseasecausing pathogens.

2015年给出的部分答案是，蜂王在产卵前将致病病原体的蛋白质片段转移到卵中，从而为卵接种疫苗。

When winter begins, all bumblebees die except a few pregnant queen bees. In the spring, those queens head out alone to start a new structure to live and produce worker bees in, beginning the process all over again.

冬季来临时，除了几只怀孕的蜂王能够幸存，所有的大黄蜂都会死去。在春季，这些蜂王会开始独自筑巢，繁殖工蜂，年年如此。