蛇

Tan'.'' and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes.

和褐色王蛇，后头部有箭头形状的斑点；东南部的品种有红色的条纹，与珊瑚蛇相象。

Why didn't Harry talk Parseltongue to the Basilisk? Good question.

为什么哈利没有用蛇老腔对蛇怪说话呢？

Of swimming creatures that are destitute of feet, some have winglets or fins, as fishes: and of these some have four fins, two above on the back, two below on the belly, as the gilthead and the basse; some have two only,-to wit, such as are exceedingly long and smooth, as the eel and the conger; some have none at all, as the muraena, but use the sea just as snakes use dry ground-and by the way, snakes swim in water in just the same way.

一些没有脚的动物有小翼或者鳍，如鱼；这样的动物有些有四只鳍，两只在背上，两只在腹部，如乌颊鱼和 BASSE ；一些只有两只鳍，理智的说，就如那些极度修长和平滑的鳗鲡和康吉鳗；一些动物没有鳍，如同 MURAENA ，但是在海里就如同蛇在陆地，并且顺便说一下，蛇在水里游也是使用同样的方式。

Nava Becher reminds me that Moses coiled a bronze snake around his staff and thrust it upward to the sky to remind people of the Almighty and that the snake is a symbol for medicine meaning that what kills you can also cure you.

贝歇博士提醒我《圣经》里的摩西将一条铜蛇挂在他的权杖上，举向天空，让人们想到万能的上帝，而这蛇就是医学的象征，意思是杀你者也能救你。

You could even cut the branch on which the snake is, so the snake falls and not you.

你甚至可以砍断有蛇的那个树枝，所以掉下去的是蛇，而不是你。

It was quite fat; there was a large bulge in the middle of its length.

这是一条肥壮的蛇；蛇的中间凸起很大的一块。

Police told the man to drop the snake, but he ran into bushland still carrying it.

警察立即命令该男子将蛇放下，但他却带着蛇跑进了路边的灌木丛中。

THE red belly black snake is a indigenous to Australia's bushland areas where the Angove family has crafted fine wines with distinctive qualities for five generations.

赤腹黑蛇是一种生活在澳大利亚灌木地区的蛇类。在澳大利亚的灌木地区，安格家族已经精心酿造品质出众的葡萄酒有五代人的时间了。

Unfortunately, there is one final significance of the caduceus that should appeal to no one and is horrifying when connected to the medical profession, for it was the duty of Hermes, caduceus in hand, to lead the souls of the dead to the underworld.

不幸的是，赫尔墨斯蛇杖还有一个重要意义，如果和医生这个职业联系起来，会变得很恐怖，没人会再感兴趣——因为手持蛇杖，引领死者的灵魂前往冥界，是赫尔墨斯的职责。

In fact, the Romans used the caduceus as a symbol of peace, and described a myth in which Hermes threw his rod between two fighting snakes and stopped their battle, at which point they wrapped themselves around the wand.

事实上，罗马人用默丘利的手杖作为和平的象征，并且在一个神话中说，赫尔墨斯投魔杖于两条互相争斗的蛇中，制止了它们的战斗，于是两条蛇就盘绕在魔杖之上。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。