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单词 asp
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/asp /
noun
1 (also asp viper) A small southern European viper with an upturned snout.
  • Vipera aspis, family Viperidae.
Overseas they have a mixture of cobras, vipers, asps and snake types that we don't have here, that produce quite different effects....
  • But, he mused: ‘I feel that I may be taking an asp to my bosom.’
  • Surely the worst asps in this world are the ones one has clasped to the bosom.
1.1 another term for Egyptian cobra.In his play Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra is delivered a basket of figs containing an asp, the venomous snake that ultimately causes her death....
  • She would not live this way, so history says she had an asp, which was an Egyptian cobra, brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
  • This doesn't sound too appetizing to Cleo, and she has an asp - a rather poisonous snake - brought to her hidden in a basket of figs.
2A large predatory Eurasian freshwater fish of the carp family.
  • Aspius aspius, family Cyprinidae.
Fish like the asp are gems waiting to be uncovered....
  • Added to this were exotic creatures such as ide, and asp, and armfuls of vast trout from Vättern.
  • There are problems with using ‘outsize’ baits and our 2-4 lb asp and zander, meant that we had to adapt our rigs to get a good hook presentation.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin aspis, from Greek.

ASP2

abbreviation
Application service provider, a company providing Internet access to software applications that would otherwise have to be installed on individual computers.
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