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- After an absence of seventeen years, the forest is now overrun by cicadas.
- 在17年的缺席之后,森林中的蝉泛滥成灾。
- The adults are clumsy and very edible.
- 成年蝉不仅笨拙而且非常美味。
- For turtles and other inhabitants of the forest,
- 对于龟和其他森林居民来说,
- this is a feast they're lucky to see once in their lifetime, and they gorge themselves while they can.
- 可能再也没有运气能这样狼吞虎咽、大快朵颐。
- Times have never been so good.
- 美好时光!
- The cicadas have no defenses and virtually offer themselves to their attackers.
- 蝉毫无防卫而且好像是把自己送上门供享用。
- The stream of insects is so relentless
- 这种昆虫川流不息的出现,
- that soon all the predators are full to the point of bursting, and still the cicadas come.
- 使得捕食者数量很快就暴涨,仍然有大量的蝉赶来。
- With the predators overwhelmed the survivors can achieve their purpose.
- 当捕食者达到饱和,存活的蝉也在完成它们的使命。
- After mating, the adults lay their eggs and then their job is done.
- 成蝉在交配完并产卵后,它们的工作也完成了。
- In just a few days they will all die and the forest will fall silent.
- 几天的时间内他们全将死去,森林又会恢复平静。
- The cicadas here, will not be heard again for another seventeen years.
- 在接下来的17年里,不会再听到布鲁德蝉的声音了。
- Having fed the predators, the cicadas leave one final gift for the forest itself.
- 喂饱了掠食者后,蝉给森林留下了最后的礼物。
- The nutrients in a generation of cicadas are returned to the soil, all at once
- 这些蝉给土壤提供了大量养分,
- and the trees enjoy a marked spurt in growth.
- 树木也可以享受疯长的乐趣。
- This may be the single largest dose of fertilizer in the natural world.
- 这可能是自然界最大剂量的一只营养针。
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在北极边缘有着大片针叶树林,那是矮小的针叶科树木寂静的世界。那些树或许真的很矮,但在高空拍摄下,树林显示出其真实的大小。世界有1/3的树木都生长在这里,在短暂的夏季里,这些树木制造了大量的氧气足以改变的大气的成份。
来源:可可英语 http://www.kekenet.com/Article/201808/562587.shtml