adder
adder 英 [ˈædə(r)] 美 [ˈædɚ]
n. 蝰蛇（欧洲产的小毒蛇）；加算器；猪鼻蛇（北美产无毒的）
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- n. 蝰蛇（欧洲产的小毒蛇）；加算器；猪鼻蛇（北美产无毒的）
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1. I took a horned adder from beneath a stone and let it sting me.
我从石头下面捉出一条长角的毒蝰蛇来，让它咬我。
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2. Often an adder bite goes unnoticed or is confused with an insect sting until the ensuing pain gets the victim’s attention.
如果被蝰蛇咬了一口，人们经常会误以为只是蚊虫叮咬，直到接踵而来的剧痛，受害者才会明白过来。
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3. An adder, a snake, was in Old English “a nadder”; and an auger, the thing you dig holes for fence posts with, was “a nauger”.
an adder（蝰蛇）在古英语中写作a nadder；an auger（你用来挖洞放置栅栏的钻子）原先写作a nauger。
- adder (n.) Old English (West Saxon) næddre (Mercian nedre, Northumbrian nedra), "a snake; the Serpent in the Garden of Eden," from Proto-Germanic *naethro "a snake" (source also of Old Norse naðra, Middle Dutch nadre, Old High German natra, German Natter, Gothic nadrs), from PIE root *nētr- "snake" (source also of Latin natrix "water snake" (the sense is probably by folk-association with nare "to swim"); Old Irish nathir, Welsh neidr "snake, serpent").
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