The cicada is a clever little insect.

蝉是一种聪明的小昆虫。

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Like animals that eat a certain plant and that plant relies on a certain fungus to help it get nutrients from soil and on a certain insect for pollination.

比如动物吃某种植物，而这种植物依靠某种真菌从土壤中获取营养，依靠某种昆虫来授粉。

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On a visit to an insect farm, she greedily peels the wings and legs off a freeze-dried locust and crunches down with gusto.

在她参观一家昆虫农场时，她贪婪地剥下一只冻干的蝗虫的翅膀和腿，然后兴奋地吞下了肚。

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He bent over the insect and blew a breath of air at it.

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One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

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The friend suggests a certain insect repellent.

你朋友建议使用一种驱虫剂。

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We're spraying the alfalfa for a insect pest called a alfalfa weevil.

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That means that Wolbachia in a male insect is in an evolutionary dead-end.

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At the end of our four-hour hike, Remo pounced into a dense roadside thicket to catch a scarce swallowtail, a butterfly noted for its brilliant blue and gold tail whose design mimics the head of a distasteful insect to ward off predators.

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