python
python — 名詞
- pythonsingular
- pythonsplural
1. A large non-venomous snake native to tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Austr
蟒蛇
大型無毒蛇，以纏繞窒息方式獵食
A large non-venomous snake native to tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia. It kills its prey — usually small-to-medium mammals and birds — by coiling its body around the animal and squeezing until suffocation, then swallowing the prey whole. Some species grow over 6 metres long.
On a night safari, Indra spotted a python coiled around a branch above the trail.
Indra 在夜間狩獵導覽中看到一條蟒蛇盤繞在小徑上方的樹枝上。
collocation: python coiled around [something]
A python can unhinge its jaw to swallow animals much wider than its own head.
蟒蛇能讓下顎脫臼，吞下比自己頭部寬很多的動物。
anatomical description: unhinge its jaw
Liang watched the python tighten its coils around the rodent until the prey stopped moving.
Liang 看著那條蟒蛇勒緊囓齒動物，直到獵物不再動彈。
predation pattern: tighten + coils around
Eve carefully monitored the humidity inside her python's enclosure to keep the snake healthy.
Eve 仔細監控蟒蛇飼養箱內的濕度，以維持蛇的健康。
captive care: monitored humidity inside enclosure
The python's camouflage makes it almost invisible among fallen leaves and forest undergrowth.
蟒蛇的保護色讓牠在落葉與森林下層植被中幾乎難以察覺。
- python constricts
- python coils
- python swallows
- python strikes
- python slithers
- large python
- reticulated python
- Burmese python
- python skin
- python enclosure
- python habitat
- python species
- constrictor
A broader term for any snake that kills by squeezing; includes pythons, boas, and anacondas.
- boa
A different family (Boidae) that resembles pythons but gives live birth and lacks premaxillary teeth.
- serpent
A formal or literary word for any large snake; not specific to constrictors.
文法句型
a/the python
pythons (plural)
用法筆記
Pythons are non-venomous — they kill by constriction, not by venom. The word is also used as the name of a programming language (a proper noun), but that meaning functions as a separate lexical item.
常見錯誤
同根字
- pythonine形容詞C2