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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recognized the Javanese, a real serpent two and a half feet long, of a livid colour underneath, and which might easily be mistaken for a conger eel if it were not for the golden stripes on its side.
-- Immediately one of these arms slid like a serpent down the opening and twenty others were above.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was convulsed in the clasp of this death of his father's, as in the coils of the great serpent of Laoco脙露n.
-- The great serpent had got the father, and the son was dragged into the embrace of horrifying death along with him.
-- But he Loerke, could he not penetrate into the inner darkness, find the spirit of the woman in its inner recess, and wrestle with it there, the central serpent that is coiled at the core of life.
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：
-- 'What!has he not seen that the woods were filled with outlying parties of the enemies, and that the serpent could not steal through them without being seen?
-- Your squaws are the mothers of deer; but if a bear, or a wildcat, or a serpent were born among you, ye would flee.
-- But the moment the noise of the serpent was heard, he arose, and cast his looks on each side of him, bending his head low, and turning it inquiringly in every direction, until his keen eye rested on the shaggy monster, where it remained riveted, as though fixed by the power of a charm.
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