ant cities

Ant Cities

蚂蚁城市

Have you seen ants busy running over a hill of dirt? They may look like they are just running around. But the ants built that hill to live in, and each ant has work to do.

你看见过一群蚂蚁忙着爬上一座小土丘吧?看起来它们只是在空东逛逛 ,西瞧瞧,其实那座小土丘正是它们建造的家园，而且每只蚂蚁都有自己的工作要做。

Some ants may disappear into a small hole in the hill. The hole is the door to their nest.

也许你会看见有一些蚂蚁钻进了土丘的小洞口。那些小洞正是蚁窝的入口。

These are harvester ants. Their nest is made of lots of rooms and tunnels. These little insects made them all.

这种蚂蚁叫做收获蚁。蚁窝有很多很多房间和通道，都是这些小昆虫建造的。

Underneath the hill there may be miles of tunnels and hundreds of rooms. The floors are worn smooth by thousands of ant feet. It is dark inside the nest. But the ants stay cozy.

土丘底下可能有长达几千米的通道,还有几百个房间。几千只蚂蚁把这些通道和房间的地面踩得平平整整的。蚁窝里很暗,蚂蚁们却住得舒舒服服。

In the rooms of the nest, worker ants do many different kinds of work. It is like a city, a busy city of ants.

在蚁窝的每个房间里,有工蚁负责各种不同的工作。这儿就像一座城市,一座繁忙的蚂蚁城市。