If it did not leave, she used the hoe to kill it. Four of us once draped a very long snake, dead of course, across our necks for a photograph.

• 如果它执意不走的话，祖母不得不用锄子把它打死。我们四个有一次就把一条很长的蛇，当然是死的，绕在脖子上，拍了张照片。