研究简报蟒蛇油脂的若干物理及化学常数

Some Physical and Chemical Constants of Python Snake Fat

蛟龙摆尾巨浪翻，蟒蛇缠树居苍山；

Dragon put tail waves over, Python entangled in the tree features.

一条蟒蛇蟠在大树根部。

A boa lay coiled at the foot of the tree.

六岁时，大人们使我对我的画家生涯失去了勇气，除了画过开着肚皮和闭着肚皮的蟒蛇，后来再没有学过画。

The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.

这本书中写道：“这些蟒蛇把它们的猎获物不加咀嚼地囫囵吞下，尔后就不能再动弹了；它们就在长长的六个月的睡眠中消化这些食物。”

In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey4 whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion5."

大人们劝我把这些画着开着肚皮的，或闭上肚皮的蟒蛇的图画放在一边，还是把兴趣放在地理、历史、算术、语法上。

The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.

当我还只有六岁的时候，在一本描写原始森林的名叫《真实的故事》的书中，看到了一副精彩的插画，画的是一条蟒蛇正在吞食一只大野兽。

Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.

好莱坞关于这条蟒蛇的版本纯粹是一种幻想——它是一条想吃掉这些B级电影演员的长100英尺的水蟒。

Hollywood's version of the snake was pure fantasy-a 100 foot long giant with an appetite for B-movie actors.

货币政策制定者们梦想能像电影《森林王子》（jungle book）中的蟒蛇kaa一样收紧政策。

In their dreams monetary authorities tighten like Kaa, the Jungle Book python.

之后Scavotto打电话给公司，说自己有事得晚点上班。但是老板不相信他所讲的蟒蛇故事，于是斯卡沃托把蟒蛇带到办公室给老板看。

He then called work to say he'd be late, but his boss