boa constrictor

基本解釋

Or better yet, unplug your headphones completely before wrapping them like a boa constrictor around your media player.
在將線像蟒蛇般纏繞在播放器上之前，將耳機拔下來更好。
Once I did a cartoon of a boa constrictor marked Capital swallowing a rabbit marked Labour.
有一次，我畫了幅漫畫，一條標著‘資本’的大蟒蛇正在吞下一衹標著‘勞工’的兔子。
For example, all species have a two-part Latin name, such as Boa constrictor or Homo sapiens.
比如，所有物種的名字都由兩部分拉丁文組成，像蟒蛇（Boa constrictor）或智人（Homo sapiens）。

Instead, the computer played this very quiet move that constrained all of Kasparov's pieces, sucking the life out of his position like a boa constrictor.
FORBES: Magazine Article
Ever since Britain surrendered the Crown Colony to the PRC in 1997, Beijing has, like a boa constrictor, inexorably tightened its grip on the people of Hong Kong.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The threat we're ignoring now
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A 7-foot-long boa constrictor, two ball pythons and a monitor lizard were stolen from a Central California science museum by a man who was caught on camera throwing the reptiles into a plastic trash bag.
NPR: Thief Makes Off With Reptiles From Calif. Museum

A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.