addern. poisonous snake(It was an ancient super-stition that adders were deaf.) 毒蛇(古代迷信為耳聾)。 △2H.VI. 3.2.76:“What? Art thou,like the adder,waxen deaf?”怎么? 難道你像毒蛇一樣,變聾了嗎? △Ham.3. 4. 203:“Whom I will trust as I will addersfanged,”i.e. poisonous snakes with fangs. 對他們我只能當做有牙的毒蛇那樣信任。 
a lurking adder adder寬蛇(Viperidae)蝰蛇科的幾種毒蛇和眼鏡蛇科的棘蛇的統(tǒng)稱。尤指龍紋蝰(Vipera berus)。遍布歐亞大陸。體粗壯,長達80厘米,灰黑色,背部有“之”字形黑色條紋,兩側有黑色斑塊。棘蛇(Acanthophis antarcticus)產(chǎn)于澳大利亞,形似蝰蛇,毒性強烈。 |