英伦广角 2010-10-10 澳大利亚遭遇75年来最严重蝗灾

This is what hundreds of farmers across Australia are waiting up to, and it's going to get a lot of worse. A locust¹ invasion which could be the most devastating² in decades.
A locust has been around, forever around, you know the biblical play thing in the top we've got here play a biblical proportions.
Who's not raise again time to spread affected³ areas within side to side. Right now the locusts⁴ can't fly, but once they matured they can choose their way across millions of acres, eating the entire crop in a couple of days.
P get them in the next ten days, we can louse them, as the temperature heats up, as start the *, once they are sworm, it's virtually impossible to control on the hardly mobile when they ready cross the *Queens of Victoria and South Australia are all address can hear on new south will crops worth 1.5 billion pounds are under threat. The state government is urging farmers to act quickly.
The locusts would be implying proportions this season, be alert be aware and stop them in their tracks.
A winter of heavy rain after several years of droughts created a perfect conditions for both farmers and the insects. Scope mature find them were land where * rare sheet, the plague locusts can * his grazing land, but neightbours risk of losing million dollar crops.
They are looking at the best crop of handing a long time and they need their crop to get over the financial trouble say if negetives are like that, it's gonna be probably the biggest disaster of headiness are rare really. We just can't imagine one nature disaster is the * are put up with.
Official who've been monitoried near advancing place from the air have been shocked to the rapidly spread.
We need the, we had the probably the main area, but we find far more worse we'be ever been expected.
We are saying survivors⁵ are right to arrange an ideal percent a more from the locusts where is in the normal year yet on get 20% or * would survive. So this is a huge challenge for us.
Fifteen planes are on stand by who joined the battle which could never be once. All they can do is to flick⁶ heavy casualties before the enemy takes to the air.

1 locust   

n.蝗虫；洋槐，刺槐

参考例句：

• A locust is a kind of destructive insect.蝗虫是一种害虫。
• This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.本图所示为蝗虫的纵剖面。

2 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

3 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

4 locusts   

n.蝗虫( locust的名词复数 )；贪吃的人；破坏者；槐树

参考例句：

• a swarm of locusts 一大群蝗虫
• In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything. 很快蝗虫就飞落下来开始吃东西，什么都吃。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 flick   

n.快速的轻打，轻打声，弹开；v.轻弹，轻轻拂去，忽然摇动

参考例句：

• He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
• By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下，将马头上的苍蝇驱走。