serpent: [14] The serpent is etymologically a ‘crawling’ animal. The word comes via Old French serpent from Latin serpēns, a noun use of the present participle of serpere ‘crawl, creep’. This was a close relative of Greek hérpein ‘creep’, from which English gets herpes [17] (etymologically the ‘creeping’ disease) and herpetology ‘study of reptiles’ [19]. => herpes
serpent (n.)
c. 1300, "limbless reptile," also the tempter in Gen. iii:1-5, from Old French serpent, sarpent "snake, serpent" (12c.), from Latin serpentem (nominative serpens) "snake; creeping thing," also the name of a constellation, from present participle of serpere "to creep," from PIE *serp- "to crawl, creep" (cognates: Sanskrit sarpati "creeps," sarpah "serpent;" Greek herpein "to creep," herpeton "serpent;" Albanian garper "serpent").
Used figuratively of things spiral or regularly sinuous, such as a type of musical instrument (1730). Serpent's tongue as figurative of venomous or stinging speech is from mistaken medieval notion that the serpent's tongue was its "sting." Serpent's tongue also was a name given to fossil shark's teeth (c. 1600).
serpent 英文释义
1. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
2. a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
3. an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
serpent 双语例句
1. He felt as if a serpent had spat venom into his eyes.
他感觉就像有一条蛇朝自己的双眼里喷射了毒液。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The serpent fascinated its prey.
这条蛇震慑住了它要捕食的动物.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. There's a serpent beside him.
他身边有条大蛇.
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4. Don't believe him, he is a serpent.
别相信他, 他是个狡猾的家伙.
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5. We have had a grand voyage and seen a sea - serpent.
我们的航行非常棒.我们看到了 海蛇.
来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
serpent 实用场景例句
He felt as if a serpent had spat venom into his eyes.
他感觉就像有一条蛇朝自己的双眼里喷射了毒液。
柯林斯例句
The serpent fascinated its prey.
这条蛇震慑住了它要捕食的动物.
《简明英汉词典》
There's a serpent beside him.
他身边有条大蛇.
《简明英汉词典》
Don't believe him, he is a serpent.
别相信他, 他是个狡猾的家伙.
《简明英汉词典》
We have had a grand voyage and seen a sea - serpent.
我们的航行非常棒.我们看到了 海蛇.
英汉非文学 - 民俗
These winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent.
这些曲曲折折的行为可说是蛇走路的方式.
辞典例句
We must eat our fruit from the wily serpent's jaws.
我们必须从那条狡猾的蛇的嘴巴里去抢食果实.
辞典例句
They believed that the serpent was capable of fascinating its prey.
他们相信蛇具备蛊惑猎物的能力.
辞典例句
The javelin penetrated the serpent's scales and pierced through to his entrails.
长矛穿过鳞片刺入了蛇口的内脏.
辞典例句
The serpent tempted Eve to pick the forbidden fruit.
那条毒蛇诱骗夏娃摘取了禁果.
辞典例句
The forests adorn the earth - but shelter the serpent and the lion.
森林装饰着大地,但也隐藏着毒蛇和狮子.
辞典例句
Serpent , we'll try our hand at a mark.
大蟒蛇, 我们得找个靶子,试试咱们的手气.
辞典例句
He knows the wiles of the serpent.
他知道阴险毒辣的人的种种诡计.
辞典例句
The serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
凡是有甜美的鸟歌唱的地方,都有毒蛇嘶嘶地叫.
辞典例句
The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful in its gliding movement as a serpent.
