The dropped meal is tracked down mainly by smell, the viper using its forked tongue to taste the air until it is close enough to see its quarry.

蝮蛇利用嗅觉追踪掉落的食物，利用它叉开的舌头品尝着空气直近得可以看见猎物。

Cobras, vipers, and pit vipers have large teeth. They are called fangs.

眼镜蛇、蝰蛇和蝮蛇有巨大的牙齿。它们被称为毒牙。

Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.

乔瞄了眼，看这张纸上有幅很引人注目的画，上面疯子、体、个恶棍和条蝮蛇。

Lanceheads are not difficult to find.

矛头蝮蛇并不难。

For 10 months of the year there is nothing substantial to eat on the island, so the reptiles conserve their energy by barely moving at all.

年中有十个月，岛上没有什么吃的，所以蝮蛇几乎不移动以保存能量。

I had successfully photographed one of the deadliest snakes in the world, and a massive one of them.

我成功拍摄了世界上最致命的蛇之，而且是条巨大的矛头蝮蛇。

Lanceheads are famous for striking with very little provocation, and that snake was no exception.

矛头蝮蛇以轻易发动攻击而闻名，这条蛇也不例外。

Lanceheads have an extremely potent tissue-destroying venom.

矛头蝮蛇有极杀伤力的毒液，能破坏活体组织。

This is one of the most pristine pockets of rainforest anywhere in the world and prime habitat for giant lancehead vipers.

这是世界上最原始的雨林之，也是巨型矛头蝮蛇的主要栖息地。

I will note that one news article is out there saying that he said it was a puff adder with a weird head, just a weird-looking puff adder, and that that was nothing to worry about.

我要指出，有篇新闻报道称，他说那是条头部形状奇怪的矛头蝮蛇，就是只长相奇特的矛头蝮蛇，没什么好担心的。

What most people refer to as red, pit vipers can sense heat emissions, essentially with their eyes, but also other organs and on and on.

大多数人所说的红色，蝮蛇可以通过它们的眼睛，以及其他器官来感知热量散发。

Venomous creatures alive today, like vipers and scorpions, use fangs or stingers to shoot toxins into other animals.

今天活着的有毒动物， 比如蝮蛇和蝎子，使用毒牙或毒刺将毒素注入其他动物体内。

They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

他们抱毒蛇蛋，结蜘蛛网，人吃这蛋必死。这蛋被踏，必出蝮蛇。

This is why Charlie Munger said, I'd rather throw a pit viper down the front of my shirt than hire a comp consultant.

这就是为什么 Charlie Munger 说，我宁愿在我的衬衫前面扔条蝮蛇，也不愿聘请补偿顾问。