serpent

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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
有些人，你要的是魚卻給你的是蛇，這些人除了給你蛇之外，真沒(méi)別的可給了。
I went out through a gate called the Valley Gate and then went to Serpent Well and then through Refuse Gate, which were all parts of the wall that survived through the years.
我先經(jīng)過(guò)了一個(gè)叫做谷門的的城門，接著是蛇好門和糞廠門，這三個(gè)門都是城墻的一部分并且都經(jīng)歷過(guò)很多年風(fēng)風(fēng)雨雨的洗禮。
When Eve came near the tree one day, the serpent called her. He gave her an apple and said, "Here. Take this apple and eat it.
有一天夏娃來(lái)到樹跟前，毒蛇把她叫過(guò)來(lái)，它給了她一只蘋果說(shuō)："把這蘋果拿去吃掉。

He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.
其實(shí)，他面臨的是，撒旦的誘惑,迷惑他脫離他的族群,脫離族群的歷史。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
And the woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.
面對(duì)蛇的詢問(wèn)，女人回答說(shuō),智慧果實(shí)絕對(duì)不能吃，甚至連碰都不行。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
Like Milton's Sin, Spenser's Errour is half woman, half serpent, and in a lot of ways she embodies the very problem of religious error.
像彌爾頓筆下的罪惡之神，斯潘塞筆下的“錯(cuò)誤“是一位，一半女人一半毒蛇的怪物，她從各個(gè)方面具體化了宗教錯(cuò)誤。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

And they are published by small, sharp-eyed firms: Soft Skull Press in America and Serpent's Tail in Britain.
ECONOMIST: African literature: Prince of the absurd