serpent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蛇(尤指大蛇或毒蛇)，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Better to meet a tiger on the plain than a serpent in the grass.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then we saw a prodigy; for Jove sent a fearful serpent out of the ground, with blood-red stains upon its back, and it dart-ed from under the altar on to the plane-tree.
-- The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about la-menting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming.
-- As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'
-- As one who starts back affrighted, trembling and pale, when he comes suddenly upon a serpent in some mountain glade, even so did Alexandrus plunge into the throng of Trojan warriors, terror-stricken at the sight of the son of Atreus.
-- As serpent in its den upon the mountains, full fed with deadly poisons, waits for the approach of man he is filled with fury and his eyes glare terribly as he goes writhing round his den even so Hector leaned his shield against a tower that jutted out from the wall and stood where he was, un-daunted.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that in Terry Wickett there might be a serpent even in this paradise.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before Oak had laid his hands upon his tools again out leapt the fifth flash, with the spring of a serpent and the shout of a fiend.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On came the blue lines,relentlessly, like a monster serpent coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always strikingagain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor's legs, scornfully yelping.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bell was ringing, and the Serpent was a Serpent of many coils, and the Elephant was getting ready.
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To leeward is a turtle about forty feet wide, and a serpent quite as long, with an enormous and hideous head peering from out the waters.
-- The other was the mighty Plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical trunk, with a short stumpy tail, with fins like a bank of oars in a Roman galley.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and be-yond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
-- The serpent in the grass was sex.
-- And if we go on in this way, with everybody, intellec-tuals, artists, government, industrialists and workers all frantically killing off the last human feeling, the last bit of their intuition, the last healthy instinct; if it goes on in al-gebraical progression, as it is going on: then ta-tah!to the human species!Goodbye!darling!the serpent swallows itself and leaves a void, considerably messed up, but not hopeless.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 20 Freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to the Fairy; but on the way he meets a Serpent and later is caught in a trap.
-- An immense Serpent lay stretched across the road--a Serpent with a bright green skin, fiery eyes which glowed and burned, and a pointed tail that smoked like a chimney.
-- How frightened was poor Pinocchio!He ran back wildly for half a mile, and at last settled himself atop a heap of stones to wait for the Serpent to go on his way and leave the road clear for him.
-- He waited an hour; two hours; three hours; but the Serpent was always there, and even from afar one could see the flash of his red eyes and the column of smoke which rose from his long, pointed tail.
-- The Serpent never moved.
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