Busy as a Bee——忙得不可開交

** very busy（非常忙）// continuously occupied（持續有事）// extremely industrious（非常勤奮）

~~ 忙得不可開交；無法分心；無法分身；非常忙碌；極忙碌；忙忙碌碌；忙個不停；忙得要命；太忙；無暇思考；忙到一塌糊塗；忙得團團轉

~~ busy as a beaver // work like a beaver // eager beaver // hard at work // be shot out of a cannon // busy as a one-armed paperhanger // bundle of energy

!! When a bee lands on a flower, the pollen sticks to its hair. Then, when the bee lands on another flower of the same type, the pollen makes contact with the stigma (the top of the central female part of a flower) to result in pollination. To get one pound of honey, bees need to collect nectar from some 10 million flowers, which they change to honey in their bodies.

（當一隻蜜蜂落在一朵花上時，花粉會黏在它的毛髮上。然後，當蜜蜂落在同一類型的另一朵花上時，花粉與柱頭（花中央雌性部分的頂部）接觸以進行傳粉。為了獲得一磅蜂蜜，蜜蜂需要從大約一千萬朵花中採集花蜜，並在體內轉化為蜂蜜。）

The simile is in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, 1386-1400: "In wommen [women] be [are];for ay [~are] as busy as bees."

（這個明喻在喬叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》1386-1400中：“女人像蜜蜂一樣忙碌。”）

>> Don't bother her! Her hands are full and she is as busy as a bee.

（別騷擾她！她滿手工作，忙得不可開交。）

>> Do not talk to bus drivers. They are busy as bees focusing on road conditions, bus routes, timeliness, and discipline in the bus, etc. with no time to chat.

（切勿跟巴士司機談話，他們要專注路面情況、巴士行走路線、時間及車內紀律等，根本無法分心談話。）

學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師 李啟文　　教授