There were millions of locusts around us—a locust sandstorm.
我们周围有数百万只蝗虫——一场蝗虫风暴。
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。
Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night.
其次是通勤者的纽约——这座城市每天被蝗虫吞没，每晚又被吐出来。
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。
According to entomologists, single locusts are quiet creatures, but when locusts are placed with others of their species, they become excited, change color, vibrate, and even hum.
根据昆虫学家的说法，单个的蝗虫是安静的生物，但是当它们和同类的其他蝗虫放在一起时，它们会变得兴奋，变色，振动，甚至嗡嗡叫。
For example, locusts are small insects.
比如，蝗虫是小型昆虫。
In India, locusts have ever destroyed (破坏) many fields of crops.
在印度，蝗虫破坏了许多作物田。
However, locusts can be food for birds, chickens, ducks or other living things, even humans.
然而，蝗虫可以是鸟类、鸡、鸭或其他生物甚至人类的食物。
Humans are at the top of the food chain. They eat not only locusts, but also birds, chickens, ducks or many other plants and animals.
人类处于食物链的顶端，他们不仅吃蝗虫，还吃鸟、鸡、鸭等其他许多动植物。
These crops are attacked by locusts.
这些庄稼遭到蝗灾。
One string ties two locusts.; the dooms of the two are closely linked.
一条线拴俩蚂蚱。
THE locusts went hungry in 2009.
蝗虫们在2009年挨饿了。
Then the locusts descended: the lawyers.
然后来的就是蝗虫：律师。
They plan to track newly-hatched locusts.
他们计划追踪新孵化的蝗虫。
The sound of one hand was not the locusts.
只手声音不是飞蝗振翅。
But locusts can't swim, so how could it be?
蝗虫不会游泳，因此怎能发生这种情况呢？
One drawback is that it takes days to kill the locusts.
该产品有一个缺点，即它需要数日才能杀死蝗虫。
Bees and locusts, they move in swarms also, and even humans.
蜜蜂和蝗虫，它们也是群体活动，甚至人类也是。
Rats, mice and locusts eat the crops in the field or in storage.
野生的大老鼠，小老鼠和蝗虫偷吃庄稼和储存的粮食。
Sometimes it is more deadly and destructive than a swarm of locusts.
有时它比成群的蝗虫更加致命，更具破坏力。
Mr. Dylan also satirized the scene in his song “Day of the Locusts.”
迪伦先生还在他的歌曲《蝗虫之日》（DayoftheLocusts）中对此事进行讽刺。
Locusts swarm to the lake. Some peoples might take it for a delicacy.
蝗虫群游到湖中，一些人会作为一顿美餐。
One possibility is the tendency of young locusts to eat one another.
一个可能性是幼虫之间互食行为的倾向。
ONE of the problems about locusts is the unpredictability of their behaviour.
蝗虫的麻烦之一在于他们的行为不可预测性。
The plague of locusts has been described as the worst in more than a decade.
眼下的蝗灾被认为是过去的十多年中最为严重的一次。
This is definitely not good news for locusts, but the fungus has no effect on other life forms.
这对蝗虫肯定不是一个好消息，然而，真菌对其他生命形式没有影响。
They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street.
他们蹑手蹑脚地走过草坪，进入街道两旁洋槐树树荫之中。
The island nation has problems with locusts, insects that can destroy crops and grasslands quickly.
这个岛国遭受了蝗灾，蝗虫能在转瞬之间席卷作物和草原。
The island nation has problems with locusts, insects that can destroy crops and grasslands quickly.
这个岛国遭受了蝗灾，蝗虫能在转瞬之间席卷作物和草原。
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