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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
有些人，你要的是鱼却给你的是蛇，这些人除了给你蛇之外，真没别的可给了。
I went out through a gate called the Valley Gate and then went to Serpent Well and then through Refuse Gate, which were all parts of the wall that survived through the years.
我先经过了一个叫做谷门的的城门，接着是蛇好门和粪厂门，这三个门都是城墙的一部分并且都经历过很多年风风雨雨的洗礼。
When Eve came near the tree one day, the serpent called her. He gave her an apple and said, "Here. Take this apple and eat it.
有一天夏娃来到树跟前，毒蛇把她叫过来，它给了她一只苹果说："把这苹果拿去吃掉。

He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.
其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。
普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选
And the woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.
面对蛇的询问，女人回答说,智慧果实绝对不能吃，甚至连碰都不行。
耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选
Like Milton's Sin, Spenser's Errour is half woman, half serpent, and in a lot of ways she embodies the very problem of religious error.
像弥尔顿笔下的罪恶之神，斯潘塞笔下的“错误“是一位，一半女人一半毒蛇的怪物，她从各个方面具体化了宗教错误。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And they are published by small, sharp-eyed firms: Soft Skull Press in America and Serpent's Tail in Britain.
ECONOMIST: African literature: Prince of the absurd