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。天黑之后，后院的一条又粗又黑的橡胶水管，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、长得离谱的大黑蛇。

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，营被清理干净。最终，那条黑蛇沿着狭长的30英寸淡绿色管，前行。

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

底深处的另一个方，黑蛇洞内部，另一支队伍也正又滑又钻就位了。

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

黑蛇，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。甚至还记得他发现黑蛇的那片灌木丛。

But suddenly, she uttered a wailing scream, the boy looked at her in fear and saw her face having grown pale from horror; and from under her dress, a small, black snake fled, by which Kamala had been bitten.

但突然，她发出一声凄厉的尖叫，男孩害怕看着她，看到她的脸色因恐惧而变得苍白；从小裙子里，一条小黑蛇逃了出来，卡玛拉就是被这条蛇咬伤的。

He would spend days and nights traipsing through the mountains where, he said, a red-bellied black snake gave advice on the best bits of found wood for turning or shaping.

他日夜跋涉于山间， 据他所言，一条红腹黑蛇会那里指点他， 告诉他哪些捡来的木头最适合用于雕刻或塑形。

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

愤怒，那条黑蛇，是否一直潜伏其中？

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

自从我睡卧室里以来，一条黑蛇就一直住我的卧室下面。