| 单词 | 土拨鼠 |
| 释义 | 〔woodchuck〕The woodchuck goes by several names in the United States.The most famous of these isgroundhog, under which name all the legends about the animal's hibernation have accrued.In the Appalachian Mountains the woodchuck is known as awhistle pig. The wordwoodchuck is probably a folk etymology of a New England Algonquian word—that is, English-speaking settlers "translated" the Indian word into a compound of two words that made sense to them in light of the animal's habitat.土拨鼠在美国有好几个名字。最有名的是groundhog， 在这个名字中关于动物冬眠的传奇已经出现了。在阿巴拉契亚山脉，土拨鼠被认作whistle pig 。 woodchuck 这个词可能是新英格兰阿尔贡金语中民间起源的语汇──就是说， 讲英语的殖民者的把这个印度语单词根据这种动物的习性“翻”成了两个字的合成词，以使其有意义〔marmoset〕of marmotte [marmot] * see marmot marmotte的变化 [土拨鼠] * 参见 marmot〔hyrax〕Any of several herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae within the order Hyraoidea of Africa and adjacent Asia, resembling woodchucks or similar rodents but more closely related to the hoofed mammals. Also called coney 1dassie 非洲蹄兔：非洲和相邻亚洲部分的蹄兔目的蹄兔科的几种食草哺乳动物的任何一种，类似土拨鼠或相似的啮齿动物，但是更与有蹄的哺乳动物接近 也作 coney1dassie〔whistler〕A marmot(Marmota caligata) of the mountains of northwest North America, having a grayish coat and a shrill, whistling cry. 花白旱獭：一种北美洲西北部山区的旱獭，（暗旱獭 土拨鼠属） 属，具有灰色毛发，其叫声尖厉、高亢 〔marmot〕Any of various stocky, coarse-furred, burrowing rodents of the genusMarmota, having short legs and ears and short bushy tails and found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. 土拨鼠：任一种土拨鼠 属的粗胖的、皮毛粗糙的穴居啮齿动物，生有短腿短耳，尾短而多毛，广泛分布于北半球 |
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