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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Although pastures were often damaged by the locusts, these lands were almost always left in better shape than the crops were.

虽然牧场经常被蝗虫破坏，但这些土地几乎总是比庄稼情况更好。

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THE locusts went hungry in 2009.

蝗虫们在2009年挨饿了。

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The locusts have swamped Astana, the Kazakh capital, making the roads slippery with their crushed bodies and invading houses and shops.

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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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The animal motif in this scene echoes as spectator characters refer to the children as dogs and locusts throughout the novel.

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