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词汇 hive
释义 hive
noun
uk /haɪv/ us /haɪv/

hivenoun (BEES)


[ C ]
a structure where bees live, either built by people or made by the bees themselves : 蜂巢,蜂窝;蜂群
Bees naturally attack anything entering their hives.
 
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[ + sing/pl verb, C ]
a group of bees living together in a hive:
The varroa mite is a tiny insect that infects bees and eventually kills whole hives.
Honeybees typically build their hive in a dark, dry place, such as in a tree hollow.
The beekeeper blows puffs of smoke into the hives to distract the bees when he is making an inspection.
When a honeybee encounters a dead bee in the hive, it tosses it out of the colony.
We encountered a large hive of ground bees along the way.
They need to buy replacement bees when hives die off.
He imitates the buzzing of a hive of bees.
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hivenoun (SKIN CONDITION)


 hives[ U ]
a condition in which a person's skin develops red raised areas: 荨麻疹
break out in hivesShe broke out in hives after eating strawberries.她吃过草莓之后身上就起了疹子。

Idiom


a hive of activity/industry

hive | American Dictionary


hive
noun[ C ]
us/hɑɪv/
a place where bees live, esp. a beehive (= container), or the group of bees living there

Examples of hive


hive
Everything from genes, cells, and organisms to hives, demes, and possibly entire species.
Last, but by no means least, we have a capacity to determine the number of hives that are out there.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If this is opened up to profit-driven companies in the area of postal services, it will only lead to the profitable activities being hived off.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In my country, beekeeping involves around 27 000 producers who manage more than 2 300 000 hives.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Is not the work about to be hived off to an agency?
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Just before he sat down, he referred to the hiving off of the most profitable part of the industry.
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The hiving off of these schemes is not going to be easy.
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What will happen, therefore, in the case of those individual companies who want to carry out hiving off operations?
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Where a part of a farm is hived off, a farmer is expected to reinvest the resulting capital within a period of a year.
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At what moment and in what way are they going to be hived off?
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There is no regulation restricting beekeepers from putting sections on hives for the collection of clover honey.
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I feel that we are extremely grateful to my noble friend for hiving opened up this subject.
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You have given them so much that they stay at home in the hives instead of coming out to fertilize our fruit.
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All the rest of the subsection has been hived off into the new clause.
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Indeed, in logic, instead of hiving off they should be hiving on.
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