" Do they live with the red ants? "

“它们与红蚂蚁一起住吗？”

No, more like an ant. Like a red ant.

不会 更像是蚂蚁 红蚂蚁。

Reporters covering the storm are tweeting images of islands of red ants.

报道飓风的记者们正在推特上发布红蚁岛屿的照片。

" How do the black ants help the red ants? " asked Jenny.

“黑蚂蚁如何帮助红蚂蚁呢？”珍妮问。

" There are many kinds of ants, " said Miss Wood. " The ants in this hill are called red ants."

“蚂蚁有很多种类，”伍德小姐说。“这个土包里的蚂蚁叫红蚂蚁。”

" Some of them keep the ant house clean. Some take care of the baby red ants and the eggs."

“它们有些清扫蚂蚁窝，有些照顾红蚂蚁宝宝和蛋。”

The two red ants and the one black ant were biting one at the other and were so closely embraced together that they seemed to make one ant instead of being three separate ants.

两只红蚂蚁和一只黑蚂蚁互相撕咬， 紧紧地拥抱在一起， 它们似乎变成了一只蚂蚁， 而不是三只单独的蚂蚁。

She scattered the red ants, who had already taken possession of the porch, brought the rose bushes back to life, uprooted the weeds, and planted ferns, oregano, and begonias again in the pots along the railing.

她驱散了已经占领了门廊的红蚂蚁，让玫瑰花丛起死回生， 拔掉了杂草， 又在栏杆边的花盆里种上了蕨类植物、牛至和秋海棠。

One morning she saw that the red ants had left the undermined foundations, crossed the garden, climbed up the railing, where the begonias had taken on an earthen color, and had penetrated into the heart of thehouse.

一天早上，她看到红蚂蚁离开了被破坏的地基，穿过花园，爬上了栏杆， 那里的秋海棠已经染上了泥土的颜色， 并钻进了房子的中心。