无数褐色的小怪物,在那嵌着两片玻璃的纸盒里骚动着、工作着,卖蚁人给它们一点儿沙,它们便在沙里掘下一条条的坑道。当中有一只比较大的蚂蚁,差不多始终伏着不动。这是其余的蚂蚁敬畏供养着的蚁后。“这些蚂蚁是丝毫不要人照顾的,”卖蚁人说,“只要每月从这洞口投下一滴蜜就够 Numerous little brown monsters flirted with cartons of two glass plates, working, selling ants to sand them a little, and they dug down a tunnel in the sand. One of the larger ants was almost always motionless. This is the rest of the ants feeding ants. “These ants do not take care of people at all,” said the sold-out ants, "as long as a drop of honey is poured from this hole every month.