n.[C]

1. 黄蜂，蚂蜂
   There was a wasp buzzing about her ear.

   在她耳朵边有一只黄蜂在嗡嗡叫。

2. 易动怒的人；刻毒的人
3. （大写）Wasp, WASP, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant 白盎格鲁萨克逊新教徒，美国社会的北欧后裔，通常被当作有权势、有影响力的代号

n.

1. a social insect with a narrow-waisted, typically black and yellow striped body, which carries a sting and builds elaborate nests from wood pulp. [Vespula, Polistes, and other genera.]
2. a hymenopterous insect of a large group resembling the social wasps in appearance and either solitary or parasitic in habits.