(单词翻译:单击)
Return of the bed bug
床虱重返人类生活
If you haven’t met a bed bug, countyourself lucky. These bloodsucking insects have been staging a dramaticcomeback in recent years. They can be found in hotel rooms, airplanes, clothingstores and, occasionally, movie theaters. Accidentally bring one or more ofthese lentil-sized bugs home and your family could have trouble evicting them.
如果你还没有见过床虱,那你就算幸运的了
The wingless bugs are reddish-brown,oval-shaped and have six legs. Some people think bed bugs smell musty. Otherscompare their scent to rotting fruit or pencil shavings.
这些无翼昆虫全身红棕色,椭圆形,六条腿
Bed bugs live on blood. They usually eatevery few days or week, but they don’t need to eat that often to survive. Thetiny bugs can go months without a meal. After such an unwanted fast, or evenany time they haven’t recently fed, their bodies will be flat. And that helpsthem hide in little cracks near a bed. But once a bed bug has gorged on a meal— usually human blood, and usually while you are asleep — it plumps up like aminiature balloon. Then it returns to hiding in wait of its next meal.
床虱以血液为生,几天或者一周吃一顿,并不是很频繁
In the past 15 years or so, the bed bug, hasbecome common all over the United States, Australia, Europe and parts of Asia.Its comeback has surprised many people because until recently, the pest hadbeen rare for some 60 years in these parts of the world. During that time, somepeople didn’t even know the bed bug existed. They thought it was a made-up creaturefrom the nursery rhyme
在过去15年间,床虱在美国、澳大利亚、欧洲及部分亚洲地区都比较常见
。它的回归让许多人都觉得很震惊,因为从过去的60年到现在这种虫子在世界上的上述地区都很罕见 。那时,有些人甚至都不知道床虱的存在,以为它们只是童谣里的虚构生物 。译文属可可原创,仅供学习交流使用,未经许可请勿转载