The seagulls had come to eat not the crops, but the locusts.

海鸥不是来吃庄稼，而是来吃蝗虫的。

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But they found that the seagulls had come to eat, not their crops, but the locusts.

但是他们发现海鸥是来吃东西了，但不是庄稼，而是蝗虫。

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Wheat had come to nearly monopolize the region, but it was particularly vulnerable to the locusts.

小麦几乎垄断了这个地区，但它特别容易受到蝗虫的攻击。

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But in the meantime, locusts or not, financial investors are likely to remain busy in Germany, and corporate managers will have to learn how to get along with them.

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The cyclone not only damaged crops but created "optimal conditions for one more generation of locusts to breed", it added.

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But she says she was aghast when friends laced a fake bug near the matzo standing in for the Biblical locusts.

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