What makes these cobras kings is not just their size, or their deadliness — after all, they don’t eat humans or elephants — it is that they eat other snakes.

然而眼镜王蛇，之所以叫“王蛇”，并不是因为他的体型和致命性——实际上，他们并不吃人或者大象——而是因为他们吃别的蛇。

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The report says one reason for the growing deadliness of cancer is more people smoking cigarettes in developing countries.

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Its deadliness was linked, among other things, to the weakness of buildings, the depth of the quake, the density of population, the fault and soil types, and the intensity of the shaking.

ECONOMIST: Why the Kashmir earthquake happened and what might be done