拉斯維加斯被成群的蝗蟲(chóng)入侵

拉斯維加斯被成群的蝗蟲(chóng)入侵

Sin City is under siege by a plague of grasshoppers.

罪惡之城被一群蝗蟲(chóng)圍困。

Swarms of insects have descended on Las Vegas this week. Attracted by bright lights, the bugs have stormed the strip in numbers of biblical proportion.

本周，成群的昆蟲(chóng)降臨拉斯維加斯。在明亮燈光的吸引下，這些蟲(chóng)子以圣經(jīng)中描述的比例席卷了整個(gè)街區(qū)。

“When I see them, it’s like being in a movie. Never seen nothing like this ever!” Lyft driver Jessica Palmore told CNN. “I know they are harmless, but they make me super itchy seeing them.”

“當(dāng)我看到他們時(shí)，就像在看電影一樣。從來(lái)沒(méi)有見(jiàn)過(guò)這樣的東西!”Lyft的司機(jī)杰西卡·帕莫爾告訴CNN。“我知道它們是無(wú)害的，但我看到它們時(shí)非常癢。”

Though they have unsettled locals and may even seem like divine punishment, the grasshoppers are in fact the result of unique weather conditions.

盡管當(dāng)?shù)厝瞬话?，甚至可能看起?lái)像是神圣的懲罰，但蝗蟲(chóng)實(shí)際上是獨(dú)特天氣條件的結(jié)果。

“It appears through history that when we have a wet winter or spring, these things build up often down below Laughlin and even into Arizona,” Jeff Knight, a local entomologist explained to CNN. “We’ll have flights about this time of the year, migrations, and they’ll move northward.”

當(dāng)?shù)乩ハx(chóng)學(xué)家杰夫·奈特在接受CNN采訪時(shí)表示:“從歷史上看，當(dāng)冬季或春季出現(xiàn)潮濕時(shí)，這些東西就會(huì)在勞克林下方積聚起來(lái)，甚至進(jìn)入亞利桑那州。”“我們將在每年的這個(gè)時(shí)候進(jìn)行飛行、遷徙，它們將向北移動(dòng)。”

Knight added that he could recall about four or five other grasshopper invasions over the last 30 years.

奈特補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，在過(guò)去30年里，他還記得大約四到五次蝗蟲(chóng)入侵。

The bugs are so pervasive they are believed to also be interfering with the state’s meteorological data, showing up as rain on Las Vegas Doppler radar.

這種病毒非常普遍，人們認(rèn)為它們也在干擾該州的氣象數(shù)據(jù)，在拉斯維加斯的多普勒雷達(dá)上顯示為降雨。