She is mortally afraid of snakes.

她极其怕蛇。

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She picks up the snakes with a special tool.

她用一种特殊的工具捡起了蛇。

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Does Mother imagine that she is going to darn all those stockings knotted up on the quilt like a coil of snakes?

妈妈想没想过，她会去缝补那些像蛇一样缠绕在被子上的长袜呢？

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There is some research done by the psychologist Judy DeLoache at University of Virginia where she's studying babies' fears of spiders and snakes, babies obviously who, since their parents are normal, have not yet seen spiders and snakes.

这是心理学家朱迪·德洛克的研究,在弗吉尼亚大学,她研究孩子对蜘蛛和蛇的恐惧，孩子们，如果父母是正常人的话，从未见过蜘蛛和蛇。

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"She just didn't like snakes, I guess, " Liberty-Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft told CNN on Friday, in something of an understatment.

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She said a "substantial" number of reptiles - including snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises - had died, along with meerkats and and an ant colony.

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She uses dozens of beasts from the mythological canon and establishes new myths with matter-of-fact ease. (The idea of a Parselmouth a person who can speak to snakes seems ancient and fully formed.) She uses plot devices that could each fuel countless romantic comedies: a truth serum, transfiguration, time travel, invisibility, immortality, alchemy.

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