bee

• n. ハチ、スズメバチ; 勤勉な人
• n.（ハチ）人名；（チワワ）ベー；（東南アジアの中国語）メイ；（英語）ビー（女性のキリスト教名ベアトリクスとベアトリスの愛称）

ハチが鳴く音を真似た擬音語からの可能性。

bee

bee: [OE] Old English bēo ‘bee’ came from a prehistoric West and North Germanic *bīōn, source also of German biene, Dutch bij, and Swedish bi, which may all be traceable back to an Indo-European base *bhi- ‘quiver’. This, if it is true, means that the bee was originally named as the ‘quivering’, or perhaps ‘humming’ insect. Latin fucus ‘drone’ appears to be related.

bee (n.)

stinging insect, Old English beo "bee," from Proto-Germanic *bion (cognates: Old Norse by, Old High German bia, Middle Dutch bie), possibly from PIE root *bhi- "quiver." Used metaphorically for "busy worker" since 1530s.

Sense of "meeting of neighbors to unite their labor for the benefit of one of their number," 1769, American English, probably is from comparison to the social activity of the insect; this was extended to other senses (such as spelling bee, first attested 1809; Raising-bee (1814) for building construction; also hanging bee "a lynching"). To have a bee in (one's) bonnet (1825), said of one who is harebrained or has an intense new notion or fancy, is said in Jamieson to be Scottish, perhaps from earlier expressions such as head full of bees (1510s), denoting mad mental activity.

1. He 's got a bee in his bonnet about factory farming.

彼は工場化養殖のことで頭がいっぱいだ。

2.Remove the bee sting with tweezers.

ミツバチのキレート刺をピンセットで抜く。

3.The flower opens to reveal a Queen Bee .

花びらが広がり、女王蜂が現れた。

4.Her arm was beginning to swell up where the bee had stung her.

彼女の腕はミツバチに刺され、腫れてきた。

5.She is as busy as a bee in the morning.

朝、彼女はいつも忙しくててんてこ舞いしている。