It's like a nest of vipers.

就像一窝毒蛇。

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Now, it was into a hole of vipers that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that he had beneath his eyes.

而他现在所注视的正是一个毒蛇洞，摆在他眼前的是个魔窟。

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It is like a plastered wall where vipers have crawled; like a plastered wall where the scorpions have made their nest. It is like a whited sepulchre full of loathsome things.

它就像一堵涂满泥灰，毒蛇爬过，蝎子做了窝的墙，它就像一座白色的坟墓，充满了令人作呕的东西。

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Ribbons of the paper tape piled up at Joe's feet like a nest of intertwined vipers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Clinton campaign was a nest of hissing vipers, in which egotistical operatives such as Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson spent their time pursuing contradictory strategies and leaking to the press.

ECONOMIST: Lexington