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python

/pahy-thon, -thuhn/US // ˈpaɪ θɒn, -θən //UK // (ˈpaɪθən) //

蟒蛇,巨蟒,蟒蛇皮,蟒龙

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several Old World boa constrictors of the subfamily Pythoninae, often growing to a length of more than 20 feet: the Indian python, Python molurus, is endangered.

Examples

  • They might otherwise by snapped up by monitor lizards and pythons.

  • The maleo’s ability to take flight right away helps it avoid being snapped up by the island’s various predators, from monitor lizards to pythons.

  • After a python swallows a meal, the snake’s metabolic rate spikes, rising to 45 times as high as its resting metabolic rate to break down the prey.

  • But most of all he loved Monty Python and would regularly repeat their hilarious sketches verbatim.

  • This being Monty Python, the answer should have been obvious—their memories are no more; their line retention has ceased to be.

  • Contrary to what we had all thought for the past 33 years, Monty Python is not dead.

  • The press release had stated that the show would feature “classic Python material with modern topical twists.”

  • He gives Carl back his gun and holsters his own famous Colt Python back around his waist.

  • I saw the trunk curling back and creeping up to me like a python crawling up a hillside to coil around its prey.

  • Did you ever see the great python that died lately at the Zoo climb his ragged staff of a tree?

  • He became to her thought a python whose coils were about her person, insufferable to the gaze backward.

  • It is restored to represent the god at the moment when he has shot the arrow that slays the Python.

  • Anaconda, an-a-kon′da, n. a large South American water-snake of the Python family, closely related to the boa-constrictor.