the birds and the bees

So it's kind of like how some of your parents might have given you books about puberty so they didn't have to talk about the birds and the bees, and then you tried to connect all the dots and then you did it all wrong. It's like that.

这有点像一些父母可能会给你推荐关于青春期的书籍一样，这样他们就不必谈论鸟类和蜜蜂，然后你试图把所有的点联系起来，然后你就做错了。那样是对的。

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For although he had surely learnt by now about the birds and the bees, his heart was to be elsewhere. The secret of how the babies were born was hidden well, but everyone knew there was a secret.

他已经知道了关于鸟类和蜜蜂的那些事，至于人类婴儿，虽然还是个秘密，但每个人都知道，存在着这样一个秘密。

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her father sits her and tells her all about the birds and the bees.

她爸爸让她坐下,告诉她关于两性关系的基本常识.

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Did you know that if you tell a young person about the birds and the bees you are explaining about sex and birth??

你是否知道，如果你告诉一个年轻人birds and the bees，你向他解释的是两性之间的基本知识？

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What allows aphids--and thousands of other species--to appear so fast is a trick these insects have developed for circumventing the old rule about the birds and the bees.

是什么让这些蚜虫以及其它成千上万种虫子如此迅速地出现，这是虫子为规避鸟类和蜜蜂旧的食物链规则发展而来的诀窍。

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A debate over introducing the birds and the bees in primary schools.

关于将初步性教育引入小学课堂的争论.

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Taking lessons on sexuality from the birds and the bees itself requires first accepting something not taught ubiquitously outside norway-that evolution occurs by natural selection.

要想从鸟类和蜜蜂身上学习性知识，人们必须首先接受一个在挪威之外尚未得到广泛传播观念：自然选择产生进化。

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Parents who discuss sex and reproduction say this is talking about the birds and the bees.

家长谈及性及生育的问题会说，这是在谈鸟和蜜蜂的事情。

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A Frenchman was born sophisticated: he knows about the birds and the bees.

法国人生来就是老练的：他了解性是怎么回事。

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OSLO ( Reuters)-The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world's first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.

世界首场有关动物同性恋现象的博物馆展览显示，鸟类和蜜蜂可能都是同性恋。

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Mrs Turing's way of dealing with the thorny topic was, in fact, highly consonant with Brewster's, for John at least was the recipient at Hazelhurst of a special letter starting with the birds and the bees, and ending with instructions 'not to go off the rails'.

图灵夫人在这个棘手的问题上，也像布鲁斯特一样，采取了隐晦的手法。她给在海兹赫斯特的约翰写了一封信，以鸟和蜜蜂开始，以「不要越轨」结束。

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Did you know that if you tell a young person about the birds and the bees you are explaining about sex and birth?

你知道吗，如果你告诉一个小孩子一些关于小鸟和蜜蜂的事情（tell him about the birds and the bees），其实意思是你告诉他有关性与生命的知识。

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It's pretty amazing ． The experience has also strengthened my wish to create a beautiful garden that attracts lots of bees, butterflies, and yes, birds ．

这真是太神奇了。这段经历也让我更加渴望建一个美丽的花园，吸引许多蜜蜂、蝴蝶和鸟儿。

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Remember that proverbial parent-child talk about the birds and the bees?

记得所有父母和孩子之间都会进行的那种两性基本知识谈话吗？

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Girl and guy decide to make like the birds and the bees.

一男一女打算做一对鸳鸯。

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I stood, dumbfounded, wondering if I should be the one to answer this child's first question about the birds and the bees.

我站起来，哑然失笑，我怀疑自己应不应该是回答这个孩子的第一个关于性的问题的人。

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I'm king of the birds! And I'm king of the bees!

我是小鸟的国王！我是蜜蜂的国王！

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The birds were singing and the bees buzzing.

鸟儿在歌唱，蜜蜂在嗡嗡叫。

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You know, they teach the birds and the bees about me.

你知道，他们都对我十分仰慕。

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They are as subject as the birds and the bees to Darwin's maxim that each new species is produced and maintained by having some advantage over those with which it comes into competition.

它们和鸟儿、蜜蜂同样服从于达尔文的箴言&每个新物种的出现和维持，都是因为它们较其竞争对手具备某种优势。

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Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?" Parents who discuss sex and reproduction say this is talking about the birds and the bees ( MUSIC)

说到私人问题，有一个短语人们有时候会用到，那就是当孩子问他们“孩子从哪来？”的时候。父母在谈论性和生殖时会说这是谈论两性关系的基本常识（the birds and the bees）。

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