He looked around and thought, "There's no watersnake trying to eat me and I can have this place all to myself!"
他环顾四周,想:“没有水蛇要吃我,我可以独享这个地方了!”
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He found the snake curled up under the kitchen sink where the hot-water pipe fed into the faucet and dishwasher, but it was all but inanimate, as cold and slick as a garden hose left out in the frost.