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核心畫面

Picture a long, legless creature pouring itself along the ground in smooth S-shaped curves — no feet at all, just one continuous body sliding and winding forward, and some of them carry a poisonous bite.

可以想成一條沒有腳的長條動物，整個身體貼著地面，一路以 S 形的曲線滑行、扭動前進——牠不靠腳走，而是靠彎來彎去把自…更多收起可以想成一條沒有腳的長條動物，整個身體貼著地面，一路以 S 形的曲線滑行、扭動前進——牠不靠腳走，而是靠彎來彎去把自己送出去；有些蛇還帶毒牙，一口能傷人。

From the word’s history

Snake traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root *sneg- meaning 'to crawl, a creeping thing', so the name is built on the very motion of creeping low along the ground.

snake 可以追到原始印歐語詞根 *sneg-，意思就是「爬行、匍匐前進的東西」；也就是說，這個字從命名的一開始，重點就是那種貼地爬行、蜿蜒前進的動作。

etymonline.com/word/snake（*sneg- 'to crawl'）

From the picture

像蛇一樣的人

從蛇「悄悄靠近、冷不防咬你一口」的印象，延伸到人身上。

untrustworthy person · noun · A2

Someone who seems friendly but secretly cannot be trusted and may hurt you.

陰險小人

Also in this word

the animal · noun · A2

A long thin animal with no legs that moves by sliding along the ground; some snakes have a poisonous bite.

蛇

move in curves · verb · A2

To move or stretch forward in long curves, like a snake.

蜿蜒

原始詞典資料25 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Snakename

  • 1

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

  • 2

    video-gamesAn early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.

  • 3

    A surname.

  • 4

    A placename:

snakenoun/sneɪk/

  • 1

    Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

    • The man writhed like a trampled snake, and a red foam bubbled from his lips.
    • After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
  • 2

    A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

    • Near-synonyms: rat; see also Thesaurus:betrayer
    • Mrs. Kenwigs was horror-stricken to think that she should ever have nourished in her bosom such a snake, adder, viper, serpent, and base crocodile, as Henrietta Petowker.
  • 3

    A tool for unclogging plumbing.

  • 4

    A tool to aid cable pulling.

  • 5

    A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.

  • 6

    slangTrouser snake; the penis.

  • 7

    mathematicssciencesA series of Bézier curves.

  • 8

    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe seventh Lenormand card.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    An informer; a rat.

    • Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.
    • Yo, bare people and the snakes, yeah, they're just grass / Next minute you're the mate, yeah / Next day stab in the back
  • 10

    slanghobbieslifestyleskateboardingA person who interferes with another's run or who takes their run out of turn.

snakeverb/sneɪk/

  • 1

    To follow or move in a winding route.

    • The path snaked through the forest.
    • The river snakes through the valley.
  • 2

    slangTo steal slyly.

    • He snaked my DVD!
    • Although it wouldn't be the first time some one patented an idea that I'd had a year earlier.[…]Someone already has :)[…]F*CK ME !! Snaked again !
  • 3

    To clean using a plumbing snake.

  • 4

    informalTo drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

    • November 27 1835, N.B. St. John, letter to George Thompson his wife and children shall not be forced to flee from the hearth of a friend, lest they should be snaked out by men in civic authority
  • 5

    nauticaltransportTo wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

  • 6

    To inform; to rat; often with out.

    • He says he didn't snake and I believe him.
  • 7

    slanghobbieslifestyleskateboardingTo interfere with another's run or to take one's run out of turn.

    • Snaking is the number one way to get hurt and/or get rejected by existing scenes at your local skatepark or street spot.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。