snake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蛇，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, no wild beast showed itself, and it was probable that these animals frequented rather the thick forests in the south; but the settlers had the disagreeable surprise of seeing Top stop before a snake of great size, measuring from fourteen to fifteen feet in length.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood where he was, resting lightly on his crutch, watching his companion like a snake about to spring.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- returned the Indian, with characteristic pride and unmoved firm-ness; 'the Great Snake of the Mohicans has coiled himself in their wigwams, and has poisoned their triumph with the wailings of children, whose fathers have not returned!Elev-en warriors lie hid from the graves of their tribes since the snows have melted, and none will tell where to find them when the tongue of Chingachgook shall be silent!Let them draw the sharpest knife, and whirl the swiftest tomahawk, for their bitterest enemy is in their hands.
-- 'My brother has said that a snake crept into my camp,' said the chief to Magua; 'which is he?'
-- Observing Tamenund to look about him doubtingly, one of his companions said: 'It is a snake a red-skin in the pay of the Yengeese.
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