Block of the Week: Honeycomb
本周方块：蜂窝
An un-bee-lievable block!
一个神奇的蜜蜂类方块
Minecraft’s Buzzy Bees update, which was released in December 2019, added quite a lot of different blocks to the game – the bee nest, the beehive, the honey block, a ridiculous swarm of bee puns, and finally our block of the week – the honeycomb block.
我的世界的嗡嗡蜂的更新在2019年12月发布了，在游戏中添加了许多不同的方块——蜂巢，蜂箱，蜂蜜块，一群可笑的蜜蜂把它们捣鼓在一起，最后使我们本周的方块——蜂窝块。
The bee nest is where bees live in the wild. The beehive is where bees live when you catch them. Honey blocks do a lot of interesting things . Which just leaves the honeycomb block, which does... er... well, not very much actually. It mostly just sits there looking pretty. Which I can relate to because that’s also essentially my function in life.
蜂巢是蜜蜂在野外生活的地方。 蜂箱是你可以捕获它们的地方。蜂蜜块可以做很多有趣的事情。最后剩下的是蜂窝块，确实…嗯…好吧，实际上并不是很多。它大多只是放在那里看起来很漂亮。之所以与之有关，是因为这本质上也是我生活中的一部分。
Nonetheless, perhaps you want a honeycomb block! Perhaps you have the urge to build a bee-themed house, or go a step further and roleplay actually being a bee. In which case, never let it be said that Minecraft is not there for you. But there are a few steps you’re going to go through to get hold of one.
尽管如此，或许你也想要一个蜂窝块！大概你也有建造一栋蜜蜂主题的房屋的冲动，又或者是更进一步，真正意义上的扮演一只蜜蜂。在这种情况下，请不要说，我的世界并不适合你。但是你需要做一些步骤，请从第一步开始。
Step one is to find some bees. You’ll see them buzzing around the game’s plains and forests biomes. Step two – make some shears. You’ll need two iron ingots arranged diagonally in a crafting grid. Step three – locate the bees’ nest. This isn’t always easy to do, so if you’re having trouble then follow a bee around for a while. At dusk, or if it starts raining, the bee will return to its nest, allowing you to find it.
第一步就是找到一些蜜蜂。你会看到他们在平原和森林的生物群落中嗡嗡叫着。第二步——做一把剪刀。你需要2个铁锭对角线放置在合成栏中。第三步——找到蜜蜂的巢。这并非总是能够轻易做到的，所以如果你有一些困难，请跟随一只蜜蜂一段时间。在黄昏的时候，或者在开始下雨的时候，蜜蜂会返回他的巢，让你找到它
Step four is to inspect the nest – is it literally dripping with honey? Great! If not then you’ll need to wait a while for the bees to do their buzzy work. Once it’s dripping, then step five is to use your shears on the bee nest to gather honeycomb. Honeycomb blocks are made from that honeycomb, winning the “well, duh” award for obviousness, but stealing the bees’ honeycomb will make them angry, so step six is to RUN!
第四步是检查蜂巢——看它是否确实滴下蜂蜜？太好了！如果不是这样，你需要等待一段时间让蜜蜂进行他们的嗡嗡的工作。一旦滴下，那么第五步就是用你的剪刀在蜂巢上收集蜂窝。蜂窝块是从蜂窝制作而来的，如此明显，倒像是一句废话。但是偷了蜜蜂们的蜂窝会让它们生气，所以第六步就是，快跑！
Finally, once you’re at a safe distance from the angry bees, you can go ahead and plonk four of your honeycomb items into a crafting grid in a square. If you’ve done it right, then out will pop a honeycomb block, which you’re free to do whatever you want with. Except that. Wow, why would you want to do that?
最后，一旦你与愤怒的蜜蜂保持了安全的距离，你可以继续前进然后将四个蜂窝物品以正方形的形式放置在背包的合成栏中。如果你操作正确了，那么将弹出一个蜂窝块，你可以用它做任何你想做的事情。除了那个之外，哇，你为什么要这么做呢？
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In the real world, honeycomb is a real thing that bees use to house their larvae and their stores of food. You can see why stealing it makes them angry, right? The queen bee lays an egg in each cell of the honeycomb, gluing it to the bottom of the cell, which then hatches in a few days. The hatchling larvae are fed for a few days, then the cell is capped with a layer of wax so that they can grow into actual bees, which hatch after a few weeks.
在现实生活中，蜂窝是蜜蜂用来容纳他们的幼虫和食物储存的真实存在的物品，你可以理解为什么当你偷走蜂窝的时候让蜜蜂们愤怒，对吧？蜂皇在蜂窝的每一个格子产卵，并将它粘在格子底部，然后在几天之内孵化。给孵化的幼虫喂食几天，再在格子上盖上一层蜡，这样他们就可以长成真正的蜜蜂，在几周后就可以孵化。
One thing that’s kind of amazing about honeycomb is how the bees build its structure into near-perfect hexagons. There are a few theories about why they do this – one is that a grid of hexagons uses the least amount of material to create its walls than any other shape. The other is that it just results from lots of bees trying to make same-sized cells – like how soap bubbles clustered together form similar shapes along their borders.
蜂窝最让人惊奇的一件事就是蜜蜂怎么建造它的近乎完美的六边形内部结构。这里有一些关于他们如此做的原因——一个是使用六边形的结构相较于其他任何形状的结构，所用的创建内壁的材料是最少的。另一个则是蜜蜂们尝试用相同大小的格子所导致的。就像肥皂泡如何沿其边缘形成相同的形状
We can’t exactly ask the bees why they do it, so it will probably remain a mystery. Instead of worrying about it, it’s probably best to just go play some Minecraft instead. That’s what I’m going to do anyway. Bye!
我们不能确切地去询问蜜蜂它们为什么这么做，所以它大概也成为了一个神秘。与其担心这个，不如去玩一下我的世界。无论如何，那就是我们要做的。再见！
【行家 译自官网 2021 年 04 月 29 日发布的 Block of the Week: Honeycomb；原作者 Duncan Geere】
【本文排版借助了：SPX】
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