Alpine village tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains.

阿尔卑斯山山区的小村几乎全是高山环抱、与世隔绝的穷乡僻壤。

so that it multiplied with that promiscuous abandon characteristic of rabbits.

因此便以兔子所特有的杂乱交配迅猛繁殖起来。

Vipers (adders) and rattlesnakes manufacture the blood poison, which is known as haemolytic.

蝰蛇（蝮蛇）和响尾蛇产生血液毒素，称为溶血性毒液。

quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird.

而完全不靠它的食用意义或它会变成鸟这样的文学概念来感觉。

If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college'imaginable.

如果我们的教育制度仿效没有书籍的古代教育，我们的学院将具有可以想像得出的最民主的形式了。

of becoming more likely to die the older we get, was something self-evident,

人随着年龄的增长而接近死亡，这是不言而喻的，