【英音模仿秀】打倒美国害虫！

模仿文本：

Today we go back to the summer of 1950, when the farmers of Communist East Germany were told that the Americans were trying to sabotage¹ their crops by dropping potato beetles² out of planes and over German fields. Lucy Burns reports.

译文：

今天，让我们回到1950年的夏天，当时共产主义东德的农民们被告知美国人飞过德国农田，空投薯虫，企图阴谋破坏他们的庄稼。露西·伯恩斯报道。

 

1 sabotage   

n.怠工，破坏活动，破坏；v.从事破坏活动，妨害，破坏

参考例句：

• They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
• The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。

2 beetles   

n.甲虫( beetle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them. 甲壳虫把粪粒埋起来，然后在里面产卵。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This kind of beetles have hard shell. 这类甲虫有坚硬的外壳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》