2023/06/27 05:30
◎盧永山
Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko’s stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead it was an infiltration of crickets, some bigger than her thumb.
丹娜‧杜蘭開車穿過她居住的內華達州小鎮時，她以為自己遇到一場血淋淋的車禍。埃爾科鎮所在的80號州際公路周圍的地面，看起來像是被鮮血覆蓋。隨著紅色的轉變和移動，她意識到這是蟋蟀入侵，有些蟋蟀比她的拇指還大。
Dolan said,“it’s almost like a biblical plague,” laughing at the absurdity of the situation that is playing out in Elko, where she’s lived for six years.
杜蘭表示，「這幾乎就像聖經中的瘟疫一樣」，並嘲笑埃爾科鎮發生的荒謬情況。她在當地生活了6年。
Tens of thousands of Mormon cricket eggs buried about an inch deep in the soil began to hatch in late May and early June. For weeks, the red critters have been invading swaths of northern Nevada and causing chaos, said the state’s longtime entomologist Jeff Knight.
數以萬計埋在土壤中約1英吋深的摩門蟋蟀卵，在5月底和6月初開始孵化。內華達州資深昆蟲學家傑夫‧奈特表示，幾週以來，這些紅色生物一直入侵內華達州北部的大片地區，並造成混亂。
The big red bugs leave behind a stench so horrible, akin to burning flesh, that it forces residents to plug their noses while driving.
這些紅色的大蟲子留下一種非常可怕的惡臭，類似燒焦的肉，迫使居民在開車時掩住鼻子。
新聞辭典
absurdity：名詞，荒謬、荒誕。例句：There are all sorts of absurdities in the proposal.（該提案存在種種荒謬之處。）
akin：形容詞，相似的、類似的。例句：He is near akin to us.（他和我們是近親。）
英倫翻譯轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1590761
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