Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

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and so they seem like they don't want to talk to you.

所以他们看起来不想和你交谈。

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On the other hand, it doesn't seem so plausible, it doesn't seem intuitively right, to say that they're alive.

另一方面来说，却不太可行，说他们还活着,直观上就不对。

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They don't seem to be an ethnic group so much as a marginalized social class, but some have suggested a connection with the word "Hebrew."

他们并不像是少数民族,而更像是边缘化的社会阶级，但有些人指出它与希伯来这个词有关联“

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They didn't succeed; we still had banking crises so the system didn't seem to work very well.

它们没有取得成功；,我们仍然存在银行业危机,所以这个系统似乎运行得不怎么好。

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