Oh, the sweet hum of cicadas in your ears.

慵懒蝉鸣，声声入耳。

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。

Different broods, or groups, of cicadas come out on different years.

不同年份会有不同布鲁德的蝉群飞出。

The nymphs of the periodical cicada have been biding their time.

布鲁德X蝉（期蝉）的若虫为这个机会等待了很长时间。

With a roar to rival a passing jet, the cicadas are on the move.

伴随着可与飞机相媲美的轰鸣声，蝉开始行动了。

The things often summoned up her Java stories of gamelans, sate-sellers, cicadas and warm rain.

这东西经常让她想起她在爪哇岛的故事，故事里有加麦兰乐器，各商品，蝉鸣声和温暖的雨。

Cicadas survive only because there are too many to be devoured entirely.

蝉之所以能活下，为数量太多，而无法把他们全部都吃掉。

Insects in the Hemiptera order have piercing-sucking mouthparts and include bed bugs, cicadas, aphids, and leafhoppers.

半翅类的昆虫就具有这样刺吸式的口器，其中包括臭虫、蝉、蚜虫、叶蝉。

Raup explained that some cicadas appear every year.

劳普解释说，有蝉每年都会出现。

Every 17 years, billions of insects, known as the cicadas of Brood X, rise from the earth.

每17年，就会有数十亿布鲁德X蝉从地下飞出。

Periodical cicada mass emergences are one of those once or twice in a lifetime kind of things.

蝉的期性大规模出现生中可能只有到两次。

To continue the species, he said billions of periodical cicadas will appear all at the same time.

劳普表示，为了族延续，这期性的蝉会大批同时出现。

He also suggests that those people who are afraid of cicadas think of them this way.

劳普还建议说，害怕蝉的人这样想的。

Raupp told VOA every creature will want to eat a cicada, and they will!

劳普在接受我台采访时表示，每个生物都会想吃蝉的，而且确实也真的会吃！

It's a new day for us. It's certainly going to be a new and wonderful day for cicadas.

对我们说这样，对蝉们说也定这样。

It's a group of cicadas also known as the Great Eastern Brood, these insects have been underground for the last 17 years.

这群蝉，也叫做东部大幼虫，这昆虫已在地下生活17年。

Of course, there will be cicada " hatas" out there. They'll be " brooding" when the insects start to " hiss" .

当然也会有讨厌蝉的人。当蝉儿们发出嘶嘶声时，他们则会愤懑不满，难以平静。

The cicadas will do the same—the only difference being they will leave behind not unfinished novels but eggs that will hatch in another 17 years.

对于蝉说，它们的生基本也循着这样的模式进行，唯的区别在于它们留下的不未完成的小说，而17年后会孵化的蝉卵。

We both held on tight, the otherworldly buzz of a thousand cicadas in our ears, as we took turns exclaiming how good it was to see each other.

之后，我们便在车道上互相拥抱，我们紧紧地抱着，感叹着此刻的美好，就连耳旁嗡嗡的蝉鸣也好似超越了尘世。

On that night of emergence when the cicadas come up from the earth, everything on the planet is going to want to eat a cicada.

这蝉破土而出的那晚，地球上会有很多生物想要吃个试试。