Officials believe there are as many as one hundred fifty thousand of these large snakes in the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Snakes are symbols of renewed life and fertility in the East ; because they shed their skins so they seem to be eternally young; and they're also phallic symbols.

在东方，蛇一般都是新生命或者多产的象征,因为，蛇的蜕皮，似乎能使它永远年轻;,蛇同样也是生殖力的象征。

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We're afraid of spiders, snakes, heights, storms, large animals, darkness, blood, strangers, humiliation, deep water, and leaving home alone.

我们害怕蜘蛛，蛇，高地，暴雨，大型动物，黑暗，血，陌生人，侮辱，深水，独自在家。

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He walked carefully among the plants, as if he were walking among wild animals or poisonous snakes.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

So, both humans and chimpanzees, for instance, are particularly prone to develop fears of snakes.

例如，人类和黑猩猩，特别容易对蛇产生恐惧感。

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The sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being crushed to death by sea snakes.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

So, the claim about a phobia is that there's a bad association between, say dog and fear, or between airplanes or snakes and some bad response.

比如说，恐惧症就是在狗和恐惧之间,或是在飞机，蛇和一些糟糕反应之间，存在着消极的联结。

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More than four million people around the world are bitten by snakes each year.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

He's simultaneously confronting the fear of heights, snakes, and the dark because he's trapped in that thing and the logic is--the logic of--the logic is not bad.

他同时面对着高空，蛇,以及黑暗所带来的恐惧,因为他被困在了那个地方,这样的逻辑看上去没什么错。

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Snakes bite an estimated five and a half million people worldwide each year.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

So, chimpanzees are afraid of certain things and they can often develop phobias for certain things, but the phobias they develop, the fears they develop, are things like spiders and snakes.

黑猩猩害怕特定的东西,他们对特定的东西产生恐惧，但恐惧产生了，害怕产生了，像蜘蛛和蛇。

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Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

The two biggest fears of children in urban Chicago are that snakes and spiders, even though many of these children have probably never seen a snake outside of a zoo in their lives.

芝加哥市区孩子最害怕的两样是,蛇和蜘蛛，甚至这些孩子,从未在动物园以外的地方见过蛇。

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But the snakes are a foreign species, native to Southeast Asia.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

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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The drugs are developed from the venom of poisonous snakes.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Scientists know of about three thousand kinds of snakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Baboons have a fear of snakes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Better to avoid the unstable hammocks altogether, since they're filled with snakes, occasional bears, and flesh-eating plants that, helpfully,feed on mosquitoes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

On this day, a line of 100 people waiting to turn in their cans snakes down the block.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

To the north,the Okefenokee, which is partly in Florida and mostly in neighboring Georgia, is a true swamp, with its own gators and snakes and even beautiful orchids.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The toads have been devastating to Australia's unique wildlife freshwater crocodiles, snakes and marsupials that try to eat the toads have been no match for the toxins they secrete.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07