A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!
一群蜜蜂把发动机当作了蜂房，发动机在蜂蜡中被完整地保存了下来。
新概念英语第二册 Lesson 66 Sweet as honey

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

colony ['kɑləni] 词频1
n. 殖民地;聚居地;群体;聚居人群;
💡 colon(till)+y(名词后缀)→殖民；殖民地；居留地
"the American colony in Paris"
聚居巴黎的美国侨民
近义：settlement, dwelling
totally ['totəli] 词频4
adv. 完全，整个地，全部地;百分之百;干净;
💡 tot合计 + ally ...地 → adv. 完全地
"She seemed totally absorbed in her book."
她好像完全被这本书迷住了。
近义：absolutely, off, outright, plumb, quite, roundly 反义：insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
engine ['endʒin] 词频1 词根: en
n. 发动机，引擎;工具;火车头;机车; vt. 给…安装发动机;
💡 谐音“引擎” engineer工程师-engine工程
"We had to completely disassemble the engine to find the problem."
我们只好把发动机全部拆开以寻找故障原因。
近义：motorize, machine, motor, loco, locomotive
hive [haiv] 词频3
n. 蜂箱;蜂巢;蜂群;喧闹地区; vt. 使（蜂）入蜂箱;贮（蜜）于蜂箱中;储备，积累; vi. （蜂）进入蜂箱;聚居;
"The hive is made of wood."
这蜂箱是用木材做的.
近义：apiary, beehive
beeswax [['bi:zwæks]]
n. 蜂蜡, 蜜蜡\\nvt. 用蜡上光
近义：wax

📚 更多「新概念英语第二册」例句

Captain Alison will set out at eight o'clock, so we'll have plenty of time.
艾利森船长将于8点钟启航，因此我们有充裕的时间。
The airport was built years ago, but for some reason it could not be used then.
机场是许多年前建的，但由于某种原因当时未能启用。
Harrison had thought of everything except the weather.
哈里森把每件事情都考虑到了，唯独没想到天气。
The men got such a fright that they dropped the bag and ran away.
这两个人吓了一跳，扔下提包逃跑了。
In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.
一片片的绿草开始出现在这片烧焦的土地上，代替了多少世纪以来一直生长在那里的参天大树。
Haroun Tazieff, the Polish scientist,
波兰科学家哈罗恩。塔捷耶夫，