"You have an Ouroboros in your belly," he tells her.

“你腹部有一条衔尾蛇，”他对她说。

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What organic chemist claimed that a dream featuring an ouroboros inspired his discovery of the structure of benzene?

是哪位有机化学家因梦到了衔尾蛇，从而启发了他发现苯的结构呢？

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But equally, if you're the first with a scoop, you'll soon be buried under the avalanche of copies, an ouroboros of rewrites that sucks any value out of being ahead of the crowd.

但是，同样地，如果你的网站第一个报道了某则新闻，很快人们就会铺天盖地复制、一轮一轮地改写你的文章，吸取你网站中最热门信息的价值，以致把你的网站挤到后面去了。

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The image that comes to mind when I think of this battle is that of a serpent swallowing its own tail, like the mythological Ouroboros of the ancient Egyptians.

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The snake eating its own tail is the mythical symbol of the Ouroboros, which frequently has been interpreted as the Demiurge (an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe) in its corrupted state as it attempts to consume its own creation.

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