Conrad explains that scientists have come up with three candidates—iguanas, monitor lizards, and skinks—as the most likely relatives to have made way for the slithering snake.

Conrad 解释道，科学家提出了三种候选物种：鬣蜥、巨蜥和小蜥蜴，它们最有可能是滑动行走的蛇的祖先。

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The great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering out onto the floor.

巨蛇急速地舒开盘着的身子，在地板上向前滑行。

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I liked the part when they fell into the snake pit and the snakes were slithering all over them, and then the bad guys found them and sealed the pit.

我喜欢那段，就是当他们掉进蛇坑里，蛇爬遍了他们全身，然后坏蛋们发现了他们，就把蛇坑给封起来了。

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So discovering a snake slithering around the bottom of our raft was not exactly my idea of a fun excursion.

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