The puff adder is of special interest.

鼓腹巨蝰十分特别。

" Do you think we did well in using the adder's fat? "

“你认为我们用蛇油治管用吗？”

" I know what it is, " cried Sam. " She has been stung by an adder! "

“我晓得这是怎么一回事，”萨姆喊。“蝰蛇咬了！”

The adders hissed at him as he went by, and the bright parrots flew screaming from branch to branch.

他经过地方，毒蛇朝他嘶嘶地叫着，羽毛华丽鹦鹉尖叫着从一根树枝飞到另一个枝头上。

Susan now arrived with the frying pan, when the live adder was killed and the heads of the three taken off.

这时苏珊拿着煎锅来了，他们便把那条活蛇杀了，三条蛇头给砍了下来。

Dr. Robert Harrison, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, says every year, puff adders and the other snakes kill about 32,000 people.

利物浦热带医学院罗伯特·哈里森博士说，鼓腹毒蛇和其他毒蛇每年杀死大约3.2万人。

" Nay, " said the Star-Child, " but thou art too foul to look at and rather would I kiss the adder or the toad than thee."

" ，" 星孩说，" 你可是太丑陋了呀，我宁愿去吻毒蛇，去吻蟾，要吻你。"

" Now, if I had been stung by ten adders I should hardly have lost a day's work for't, " said Grandfer Cantle.

“嗨，假如我让十条蝰蛇咬了，我会因此耽搁一天活，”坎特尔大爷说。

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。这蛋踏，必出蝮蛇。

The live adder regarded the assembled group with a sinister look in its small black eye, and the beautiful brown and jet pattern on its back seemed to intensify with indignation.

那条活蝰蛇小小黑眼睛闪着恶意，注视着聚在一起人群，背上美丽棕色和乌黑色相间花纹好像因为气愤而得以强化。

She saw at once that Ned had reached a very different conclusion. " The only truths I know are here. The south is a nest of adders I would do better to avoid. "

立即明白奈德已然下了个截然相反结论。" 我知是，南方是个充满毒蛇猛兽地方，我还是避开为宜。"

" And there's only one way to cure it. You must rub the place with the fat of other adders, and the only way to get that is by frying them. That's what they did for him."

“只有一种办法来治。你得用其他蝰蛇油擦伤口，你得要把蝰蛇放在锅里煎，才能熬出蝰蛇油来。他们当时就是那样治他。”