如果没有真正的无毒蛇，那些所谓的无毒蛇，比如蟒蛇和巨蟒，在它们进化过程中的某个阶段是有毒的吗？
If there are no truly non-venomous snakes, were the so-called non-venomous snakes, like constrictors and pythons, were they venomous at some point in their evolution?
图片2：一位研究者测量捕获到巨蟒的长度。
Image 2: a researcher measures the length of a captured Burmese python.
如果我有小孩，我会小心提防这些风险，尤其是当孩子身处巨蟒出没的地方。
Personally, I don’t think it’s a big deal, but if I had a small child, I would be mindful of that risk if the child was in an area where there might be pythons.
巨蟒可否顺遂将鳄鱼吞下并消化呢？能。
Can this python both swallow and digest the entire alligator? Yes.
我画的不是帽子，是一条巨蟒在消化着一头大象。
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
巨蟒饱餐一顿后就睡觉，直到需要再吃一顿时才醒来。
The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal.
消防员花了四分钟才把巨蟒抓出水桶，塞入预备的铁笼里。
Firefighters spent four minutes getting the boa out of the bucket and putting it into an iron cage they brought with them.
然后，我就不和他讨论巨蟒、原始森林、或者星星之类的事。
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars.
一项新研究得出的结论是，脂肪对心脏是有好处的——如果你是一条巨蟒的话。
Fat does a heart good-at least if you're a python, a new study says.
一条宽宽的汽车道象条巨蟒沿著巴威利亚峡谷蜿蜒向上，通入深山。
The wide autobahn snaked through the Bavarian valley up into the mountains.
有一只黑寡妇蜘蛛，一条巨蟒，一条响尾蛇标本，一只猎鹰，一只侏儒兔。
He brought... a black widow spider, a python, a stuffed rattler, a falcon, a dwarf rabbit.
“我知道。”哈利隔着玻璃小声说，尽管他不能肯定巨蟒能否听到他说话。
"I know," Harry murmured through the glass, though he wasn't sure the snake could hear him. "It must be really annoying."
巨蟒饱食后就去睡觉，直到需要再进食时它才醒来，绝大部分人不像巨蟒那样。
The boa constrictor, when he had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most not part are not like this.
巨蟒剧团于1969年首次在BBC登台演出，1974年登陆美国公共电视频道。
Debuting gon the BBC in 1969, "Python" landed on American public television channels in 1974.
这个单词基于很多年前的英国电视秀节目《巨蟒剧团之飞翔的马戏团》上的一个有趣的笑话。
The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
一种选择方案是根据联邦《莱西法》把它们列入有害物种名录，这样使巨蟒进口或跨州运送变得非法。
One option would be to place them on a list of injurious species under the federal Lacey Act, which would make it illegal to import the snakes or carry them across state lines.
虽然现实生活中的巨蟒没有这样庞大，而且也不吃人，然而它们确实是让人印象深刻的巨型生物。
Although real anacondas are not nearly as large and rarely eat people, they are impressive creatures nonetheless.
在达力生日的这一天，他们去了动物园，在一个展览巨蟒的地方，玻璃突然消失了，把大家吓坏了。
At the zoo on Dudley's birthday, the glass in front of a boa constrictor exhibit disappears, frightening everyone.
通过跟现存的蛇的形状和大小的比较，科学家计算出了那些巨蟒的长度约为12.8米，重约1.135吨。
By comparing the shapes and sizes of the two best-preserved vertebrae to those of living snakes, the researchers calculated that the snake was 12.8 metres long and weighed 1, 135 kilograms.
这种新发现的蛇被命名为泰坦巨蟒以纪念其巨大的尺寸，它是1000万年来地球上最大的陆地肉食动物。
The newly discovered type of snake, named Titanoboa in honour of its immense size, was for 10 million years the largest land predator on earth.
我以前也在动物园里看过巨蟒(我常常直奔爬行动物馆)，但蟒蛇们并不能带来这样的恐惧，因为他们很少动。
I was used to looking at giant snakes in zoos (I always made a beeline for the reptile house), but pythons did not seem so scary to me because they rarely moved.
对温暖气候的偏好意味着大多数的巨蟒只能生存在佛罗里达、南得克萨斯、夏威夷或类似关岛和波多黎等热带岛屿。
A preference for warm weather means most of the snakes could only survive in Florida, southern Texas, Hawaii or tropical islands like Guam and Puerto Rico.
这只巨蟒体重140公斤，曾因被吉尼斯世界纪录评为“人工饲养最长的蛇“而成为动物园里一大旅游景点。
Fluffy, who weighed 140kg, became a huge tourist attraction at the zoo after being officially named the longest snake in captivity by Guinness World Records.
书中说：“巨蟒不带咀嚼就把它的猎物囫囵吞下，然后它动弹不得，需要六个月的长眠来消化胃中的食物。”
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."
尘世巨蟒显然是隐喻了某种巨大的古代装置。即便是渴望找回母亲的父亲，也不得不对开启地狱之门再三思度。
The Midgard Serpent is clearly a metaphor for some monstrous ancient device, and even my father had second thoughts about opening Helheim despite his desperate hope to find my mother.
不仅如此，杰克逊更将一个铁锈红乡村谷仓变成了一个奇珍异兽馆，展示众多来自异国的毒蛇，包括缅甸巨蟒和孟加拉独眼眼镜蛇。
Mr. Jackson converted a rustic red barn into a herpetarium with displays for a dozen exotic and venomous snakes, including a Burmese python and a monocled cobra.
象我这样年纪的人，而且除了六岁时画过闭着肚皮的和开着肚皮的巨蟒外，别的什么也没有尝试过，现在，重新再来画画，真费劲啊！
It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six.
象我这样年纪的人，而且除了六岁时画过闭着肚皮的和开着肚皮的巨蟒外，别的什么也没有尝试过，现在，重新再来画画，真费劲啊！
It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six.
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