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。
Then the locusts descended: the lawyers.
然后来的就是蝗虫：律师。
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。
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 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。
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。
In the model, when the locusts had rigid or straight wings, flight performance suffered, the team found.
他们根据模型发现，当蝗虫具有更硬或更直的翅膀时，飞行性能下降。
Australia is also set for a weighty crop, having successfully dealt with a threatened plague of locusts.
由于成功消除了可能发生的蝗虫灾害，澳大利亚也将要丰收沉甸甸的粮食。
But, Hassanali found it has startlingly different results on juvenile wingless locusts, known as hoppers.
但是哈桑·纳尼发现它对称为蝗蝻的无翼蝗虫幼虫有令人吃惊的不同效果。
The document blamed the "very grave" situation on spies who had "spread throughout the land like locusts."
该文件指责那些“想蝗虫一样遍布这块土地的探子”导致了“严峻的”形式。
Figuring out the details of how locusts and other insects fly may help researchers design tiny robotic fliers.
弄清楚蝗虫和其它昆虫怎样飞行的细节有助于研究人员设计微型机器人飞行器。
The locusts had already destroyed thousands of hectares of crops and pasture as of April 14, reported AFP.
据法新社报道，到四月14日为止，蝗灾已经吞噬掉了数千公顷的作物和牧草。
With the model in hand, Thomas and his team could predict the shapes of the air currents around the flying locusts.
手中有了模型，托马斯和他的研究团队得以推算飞行蝗虫周围气流的形态。
With the model in hand, Thomas and his team could predict the shapes of the air currents around the flying locusts.
手中有了模型，托马斯和他的研究团队得以推算飞行蝗虫周围气流的形态。
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