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  enlarge image- a wasp sting黄蜂蜇伤
- a wasps’ nest黄蜂窝
Topics Insects, worms, etc.b2 Collocations Dictionarywasp + verbwasp + nounphrases 词源Old English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to weave (from the web-like form of its nest).
Wasp noun /wɒsp/ /wɑːsp/ (also WASP) (especially North American English, usually disapproving)- a white American whose family originally came from northern Europe and is therefore thought to be from the most powerful section of society (the abbreviation for ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestant’) 白种盎格鲁–撒克逊新教徒（全写为 White Anglo-Saxon Protestant，祖先来自北欧，被认为是美国社会中势力最强大的白人）
- a privileged Wasp background享有特权的盎格鲁–撒克逊裔白人新教徒出身
词源1960s: acronym from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
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