More and more, black snakes and brown and mottled-he flung them out.

越来越多的蛇、黄蛇和花蛇扔了出来。

The snake, finding he has met his match, draws back a little; and the mocking-bird redoubles his blows.

蛇，发现自己遇到了对手，向后退了一点点，知更鸟立即更用力啄。

I never forgot his saying it. I can even remember the sumac thicket where he saw the blacksnake.

我至今没有忘记他说过的这番话。甚至还记得他发现蛇的那片灌木丛。

Elsewhere far below the Earth's surface, in the entrails of Racer Cave, another team was slithering into place.

在底深处的另一个方，蛇洞内部，另一支队伍也正又滑又钻就位了。

Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them?

难道愤怒这条蛇潜伏在他们中间？

By March 2017 they were cleared, and through the miles of 30-inch light-green pipes the black snake oozed its way.

截至2017年3月，清理干净。最终，那条蛇沿着狭长的30英寸淡绿色管道，缓缓前行。

The black snake turned and ran at me again.

蛇转身又朝我跑了过来。

A black snake has lived under my bedroom as long as I have slept in it.

自从我睡在卧室里以来，一条蛇就一直住在我的卧室下面。

A black snake actually ran at me, and a chicken snake thrust his face into mine from a pantry shelf.

一条蛇居然朝我跑了过来， 一条鸡蛇从储藏室的架子上把脸伸进了我的脸。

The fastest living thing I have ever seen was a black snake crossing a bed of hot ashes with a mouse in his mouth.

我见过的最快的生物是一条蛇， 嘴里衔着一只老鼠， 穿过热灰烬床。

Jib's relations with black snakes did not seem so friendly. The one who lived under the kitchen came out one morning with a broken tail, tell-tale slashes at its tip. The innocuous black snake is both brave and impudent.

吉布与蛇的关系似乎并不那么友好。一天早上，住在厨房下面的那只尾巴断了，尾巴末端有明显的斜线。无害的蛇既勇敢又放肆。

Slip ups can occur along any of the above mentioned lines.A thick black rubber hose in a backyard after dark for a moment actually becomes, or could become, to a timid soul a particularly vicious, ridiculously long and fat black snake.

上述任何一方面都有可能发生差错。天之后，后院的一条又粗又的橡胶水管，对一个胆小的人来说，一瞬间居然变成了，或者说可能变成了一条特别凶恶的、长得离谱的大蛇。