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snake pit

蛇窝,蛇坑,蛇洞,蛇口

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
    • : an intensely chaotic or disagreeable place or situation.

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Examples

  • So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?

  • He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.

  • He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

  • In several reports he urged the pit operators to safeguard the birds.

  • For these Arabs, Iran is the raised (and loaded) head of the snake.

  • With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.

  • At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.

  • Old Pit Town knows lots of good people, and would give us letters, I suppose.

  • Certes le capitaine Merveilles et ses gens monstrerent leur pit non vulgaire.

  • He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.