英语词汇busy as a bee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

busy as a bee. “For aye as busy as bees been they,” Chaucer wrote in Canterbury Tales (1387), the first recorded mention of the phrase. But bees must have been noticed busily collecting nectar since prehistoric days and no doubt the expression was used long before Chaucer’s time. Bee, in fact, is a word found in all languages with Indo-European origins. That bees are busy there is no doubt—one pound of honey results from the visit- ing of some 10 million flowers where bees collect nectar, which they change to honey in their bodies.

词汇	busy as a bee
词源	busy as a bee. “For aye as busy as bees been they,” Chaucer wrote in Canterbury Tales (1387), the first recorded mention of the phrase. But bees must have been noticed busily collecting nectar since prehistoric days and no doubt the expression was used long before Chaucer’s time. Bee, in fact, is a word found in all languages with Indo-European origins. That bees are busy there is no doubt—one pound of honey results from the visit- ing of some 10 million flowers where bees collect nectar, which they change to honey in their bodies.
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