IN GREEK legend, the hydra was a many-headed monster. If a head was severed, it grew back.

希腊神话中，许德拉是一头九首怪物，它的头如果被砍，马上就会长回；其实在某些故事版本中，会很快长出两个头。

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Her femoral artery's been severed.She's losing too much blood. No, no, my head is burning!

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We have an image here of the reconstituted, repaired body of Orpheus whose gory, severed head had been sent down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. It's as if Milton can't let go of this most un-Christian attachment to the human body.

想到一个完整的被修复好了的俄耳甫斯的身体,他血淋淋的被割下来的头颅曾,被赫伯鲁河一路冲下去直到莱斯博斯岛，似乎弥尔顿放不开,这对人体的眷恋，而这与基督教教义正相反。

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He still carries a reminder of that day: a fat scar that runs from the middle of his neck to the top of his cheek, where the machete of a militiaman almost severed his head.

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When the executioner lifted her severed head, it fell away from his hand and he was left holding the auburn wig she had chosen to wear.

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But the hapless pasha was decapitated, his severed head being duly placed in a gourd full of honey and exposed at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, after he was implicated in a plot to overthrow the sultan.

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