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The attitude of Canada’s government toward immigrationisa stark departure from those of governments in Western countries such as Sweden and Italy, where newly elected parties are seeking to curtail immigration and are blaming immigrants for crime and disorder.
加拿大政府对移民的态度与瑞典和意大利等西方国家政府截然不同，后者的新当选政党均主张限制移民，并指责移民造成犯罪和混乱。
1.departure: a way of doing something that is different from the usual, traditional, or expected way
2.curtail: to reduce or limit something
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Swarminghoneybees can produce a greater electric charge for their density than a thunderstorm cloud. The discovery came as a surprise when Ellard Hunting at the University of Bristol in the UK and his team were tracking weather at a field station near their university. They noticed their electric field monitors recorded a jump in atmospheric electric charge despite no storm activity. However, at the same time, nearby western honeybees (Apis mellifera) were swarming, a behaviour the insects do when looking for a new home.
从蜂群的密度来看，蜂群可以产生比雷雨更多的电量。当英国布里斯托大学的埃拉德·亨特和他的团队在他们大学附近的一个野外观测站跟踪天气状况时，意外得到了这个发现。他们注意到，尽管没有风暴活动，但电场监测器记录到大气电荷出现一次跃升。而与此同时，附近的西方蜜蜂正在成群飞舞，这种昆虫寻找新住所时会出现这种行为。
“When I looked at the data, I was kind of surprised to see that it had a massive effect,” says Hunting. It was already known that individual bees carry a small charge, but a voltage of this magnitude had never been documented in swarming honeybees before.
“当我看到数据的时候，我有点惊讶，它竟然能有如此大的影响”，亨特说。人们已经知道的是单只蜜蜂会带有少许电荷，但成群飞舞的蜜蜂产生这样大规模的电荷量，还从未得到记录。
The team deployed additional electric field monitors in combination with video cameras to measure the electric field and swarm density, and waited for the bees at nearbyhivesto naturally swarm. The researchers recorded three swarms passing the monitors for around 3 minutes at a time. They found that the bee swarms created an electric charge ranging from 100 to 1000 volts per metre. By analysing the proximity of bees to each other in the swarms, the team found that the denser the swarm, the stronger the electric field was.
为了测算电场和蜂群密度，研究团队又布置了一些带摄像头的电场监测器，等待附近蜂巢的蜜蜂自然地飞舞。研究员记录到3次蜂群飞过监测器，每次历时约3分钟。他们发现，蜂群们产生的电量在每米100-1000伏左右，并且通过分析蜂群内蜜蜂彼此之间的距离发现，蜂群密度越大，电场越强。
Hunting compared the bees’ highest charge to previous data onmeteorologicalevents likefair-weatherstorm clouds, thunderstorms and electrified dust storms, and found dense bees swarms outcharged them all. Their charge density was around eight times as great as a thunderstorm cloud and six times as great as an electrified dust storm.
亨特将蜜蜂产生的最高电荷量和以往晴朗天气里的暴风云、雷暴和带电尘暴等的数据进行了比较，发现密集蜂群产生的电荷量比这些情况都多。蜂群的电荷密度大小大约是风暴云的8倍左右，是带电尘暴的6倍左右。
It isn’t known if this ability is useful for bees or an accidental product offrictionbetween their wings and the air – like a person rubbing a balloon on their clothes. The charge could serve an unknown purpose as bees use electric fields toforagefor food, says Victor Manuel Ortega-Jiménez at the University of Maine. Jiménez wonders if the same phenomenon is happening with other flying, swarming animals like birds and bats. “These are all interesting questions that this paper opens to investigate,” he says.
翻译划线句，长按文末小程序码打卡，答案下期公布~蜜蜂们用电场来觅食，所以这种电荷或许起到了未知的作用，缅因大学的维克多·曼努埃尔-吉姆内斯说。吉姆内斯想知道其他飞行、群居动物，如鸟类和蝙蝠，身上是否也存在同样的现象。他说:“这些都是这篇论文要研究的有趣问题。”
本文节选自：New Scientist（新科学家）
发布时间：2022.10.24
作者：Corryn Wetzel
原文标题：Honeybee swarms generate more electricity per metre than a storm cloud
词汇积累
1.swarm
/swɔːm/
n. 一大群(移动中的昆虫); (移动着的)一大群人; (多指发生在火山附近的)地震群
v. (昆虫)成群飞行; (人)蜂涌，涌动; 挤满，云集; 成群地包围; 爬(梯子等)
2. hive
/haɪv/
n. 忙碌的场所，繁忙的地方; 蜂箱; 蜂群
v. (蜜蜂)入蜂箱
3. meteorological
/ˌmiːtɪərəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
adj. 气象学的
4. friction
/ˈfrɪkʃən/
n. 不和，分歧; 摩擦; 摩擦力
5.forage
/ˈfɒrɪdʒ/
n.饲料；草料；搜索
vi.觅食；搜寻
词组搭配
1.fair weather 晴天
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When I looked at the data, I was kind of surprised to see that it had a massive effect.
结构: When I looked at …, I was kind of surprised to see that it had a massive effect.
当看到…的时候，我有点惊讶，它竟然能有如此大的影响
例句: When I looked at the medicine, I was kind of surprised to see that it had a massive effect.
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