locust
noun /ˈləʊkəst/
/ˈləʊkəst/
- a large insect that lives in hot countries and sometimes flies in large groups, destroying all the plants and crops of an area
蝗虫 - a swarm of locusts
一大群蝗虫 - The locusts have destroyed a lot of the crops.
蝗虫毁坏了大批庄稼。
Collocations Dictionary… of locusts- plague
- swarm
- descend on
- destroy
- swarm
词源Middle English: via Old French locuste from Latin locusta ‘locust, crustacean’. - a swarm of locusts