英和和英

名詞

sand asp (複数形 sand asps)

1. The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).^[1]
   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment” in The Poetical Words of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, p. 132,^[2]

     a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell

   • 1876, Walter Thornbury, “The Legend of St. Vitus” in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, London: Chatto and Windus, p. 44,^[3]

     the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,

   • 2005, Rob Schultheis, Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team’s Battle to Rebuild Iraq, New York: Gotham Books, Chapter 14, p. 167,^[4]

     For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back: