They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.

他们提出了一个基于蚁群自组织原则的计算机模型。

When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot shaved an ant with a tiny scalpel and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.

博士生昆汀·维洛特用小刀把一只蚂蚁刮了毛再放到加热灯下，蚂蚁的温度上升了。

If an ant finds an outstanding hole—such as the inside of an acorn or a rock crevice—it recruits another scout to check it out.

如果一只蚂蚁找到了一个出色的洞穴——比如橡子或岩石裂缝的内部——它就会叫来另一只侦察蚁对洞穴进行检查。

When Ph.D. student Quentin Willot removed the hair from an ant with a tiny knife and put it under a heat lamp, its temperature jumped.

当博士生昆汀·威洛用一把小刀从一只蚂蚁身上取走毛发，并把它放在加热灯下的时候，蚂蚁的体温瞬间升高。

If something goes wrong—a hungry lizard prowling around for an ant snack, for instance—then a rush of ants returning without food sends waiting reserves a "Don't go out" signal.

如果出了什么问题——比如，一只饥饿的蜥蜴在四处寻找蚂蚁作为零食——那么一群没有食物的蚂蚁就会匆匆归来，给等待的蚂蚁发出“不要出去”的信号。

The criminal turns out to be that nice Mr. C, who you thought would never hurt an ant!

罪犯原来是那个你以为永远不会伤害一只蚂蚁的善良的 C 先生！

Finally I went outside one day and let an ant move onto my hand and touched it gently.

终于有一天，我走到外面，让一只蚂蚁在我手上移动，轻轻地碰了碰它。

I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown.

从某种程度上来说，我是一名蚂蚁生物学家，所以我开始思考我们对昆虫的生命有什么了解，并且我知道昆虫世界对于人类而言仍有许多未知的领域。

Have you ever stepped on an ant?

你踩过蚂蚁吗？

They all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.

他们全部一起出发去度假了，最后来到了一座蚂蚁山。

When the lid of the nest box on an ant colony is raised, a whiff of dead cockroach wafts by.

当蚁群的巢箱盖子被揭开时，一股死蟑螂的气息扑面而来。

He listened, and heard an ant-king complaint: "Why cannot folks, with their clumsy beasts, keep off our bodies?"

他听着，听到了一个蚂蚁王的抱怨：“为什么人们带着他们笨拙的牲畜，不能远离我们的身体呢？”

A biologist at Stanford University showed me that nothing an ant does makes any sense except in terms of the whole colony.

斯坦福大学的一位生物学家告诉我，如果不以整个蚁群为出发点，单只蚂蚁做的任何事情都是没有意义的。

If you put a stone in the way of an ant, it will go around, over, under or on top, without stopping, until it finds a way to get where it needs to be.

如果你用石头挡住蚂蚁的去路，它会不停地绕道、从上面越过、从底下或从顶部走，直到它找到一条通向目的地的路。

An ant was drinking at a river.

一只蚂蚁到河边饮水。

I found an ant beneath the rock.

我在岩石下找到了一只蚂蚁。

Don't be a grasshopper. Be an ant.

不要做蚂蚱，做蚂蚁。

Again, an Ant build script is provided.

同样，也提供了Ant构建脚本。

Tests can be automated by using an Ant script.

通过使用一个ant脚本可以使测试自动化。

We'd get about as much altruism from an ant colony.

我们能从一群蚂蚁身上得到同样的利他主义。

Dead is what you smell - not what you see - if you are an ant.

死亡是你闻见的——不是你看见的——如果你是一只蚂蚁的话。

In the build.xml file there is an Ant task, shown in Listing 9.

在build . xml文件中，有一个Ant任务，如清单9所示。

This is an ant that stores its colleagues' honey in its abdomen.

这是一只蚂蚁，它将同伴的蜜放在肚子里。

An ant might be a nest worker one day, a trash collector the next.

一只蚂蚁在第一天可能是蚁巢保全工，第二天也许就成了食物拾取工。

An Ant build file has been supplied for building the example.

本文还提供了构建该例子的Ant构建文件。

But, luckily, the cost of living in an ant village is affordable.

然而庆幸的是，“蚁村”的生活成本是可以承受的。