Dad drove the snake and me down the hill on Seavey Landing Road and stopped the car beside a thicket of evergreens and lilacs.

爸爸载着我和那条蛇下山上了西维公路，在一片常青树和紫丁香丛旁停下。

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I would have driven it into grass on the roadside avoiding it being rolled upon by car, but I am afraid of snake together with the fear from the wild.

我试想，用树枝把它撵到公路边的草丛里，至少可避免被车轮辗压的命运，但我确实太惧怕蛇了，加之荒郊野外本来就有种莫名的恐惧。

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In the first month of the Year of the Snake, passenger car sales surged to 1.49 million units, a 53 percent year-over-year increase.

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