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

在地底深处的另一个地方，黑蛇洞内部，另一支队伍也正又滑又钻地就位。

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

黑蛇，发现自己遇到对手，向后退一点点，知更鸟立即更用力地啄。

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的这番话。甚至还记得他发现黑蛇的那片灌木丛。

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，营地被清理干净。最终，那条黑蛇着狭长的30英寸淡绿色管道，缓缓前行。

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

愤怒，那条黑蛇，是否一直潜伏在其中？

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，一条黑蛇就一直住在我的卧室下面。

The black snake turned and ran at me again.

黑蛇转身又朝我跑。

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

一条黑蛇居然朝我跑， 一条鸡蛇从储藏室的架子上把脸伸进我的脸。

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

我见的最快的生物是一条黑蛇， 嘴里衔着一只老鼠， 穿热灰烬床。

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，一条红腹黑蛇会在那里指点他， 告诉他哪些捡的木头最适合用于雕刻或塑形。

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，对一个胆小的人说，一瞬间居然变成，或者说可能变成一条特别凶恶的、长得离谱的大黑蛇。

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，男孩害怕地看着她，看到她的脸色因恐惧而变得苍白；从小裙子里，一条小黑蛇逃出，卡玛拉就是被这条蛇咬伤的。

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.

吉布与黑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，尾巴末端有明显的斜线。无害的黑蛇既勇敢又放肆。