🇬🇧🇨🇳 beekeeping - 养蜂业 : English Lesson

Meaning of "beekeeping" ("养蜂业"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Beekeeping is the activity or job of looking after bees that live in special boxes called hives. A beekeeper gives the bees a safe place to live, checks that they are healthy, and makes sure they have enough flowers to visit. In return, the bees make honey and wax, which the beekeeper carefully collects. Beekeeping helps people get sweet honey to eat and also helps plants grow, because bees carry pollen from flower to flower while they fly around.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I love beekeeping, but it’s hard to feel serious when your safety outfit makes you look like a scared popcorn kernel.

My first beekeeping lesson was learning that bees do not appreciate surprise hugs.

Beekeeping is like running a tiny buzzing city where everyone pays their taxes in honey.

Our beekeeping club motto is: “We’re not running away, we’re just rapidly respecting the bees.”

Beekeeping is extra cool because bees help pollinate about one third of the food we eat, which means without beekeeping, your favorite snacks might disappear!

At sunrise Sara watched her neighbor's beekeeping. He put on a beekeeping suit, opened the hive, and let bees climb on the frame. His beekeeping hands moved slowly; he showed Sara how beekeeping takes care and how honey is kept. They tasted warm honey; Sara smiled, grateful for the quiet end to beekeeping day.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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