詞語:woodchuck
woodchuck是什麼意思
簡明英漢詞典
woodchuck
[5wud7tFQk]
n.
[動]美洲旱獺,花白旱獺
美國傳統詞典[雙解]
woodchuck
wood.chuck
AHD:[w?d「ch?k」]
D.J.[6wud7t.(k]
K.K.[6w&d7t.(k]
n.(名詞)
A common burrowing rodent (Marmota monax) of northern and eastern North America, having a short-legged, heavy-set body and grizzled brownish fur. Also called groundhog Regional whistle pig
北美土撥鼠,美洲旱獺:北美北部和東部的一種普通的穴居齧齒類動物(北美土撥鼠) ,有短腿、健壯的身體和灰棕色的皮毛 也作 groundhog【區域的】 whistle pig
語源
[By folk etymology, probably of New England Algonquian origin]
[根據民間傳說,可能源自新英格蘭阿爾貢金語]
註釋
The woodchuck goes by several names in the United States. The most famous of these is groundhog, under which name all the legends about the animal's hibernation have accrued. In the Appalachian Mountains the woodchuck is known as a whistle pig. The word woodchuck 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.
土撥鼠在美國有好幾個名字。最有名的是groundhog, 在這個名字中關於動物冬眠的傳奇已經出現了。在阿巴拉契亞山脈,土撥鼠被認作whistle pig 。 woodchuck 這個詞可能是新英格蘭阿爾貢金語中民間起源的語彙──就是說, 講英語的殖民者的把這個印度語單詞根據這種動物的習性「翻」成了兩個字的合成詞,以使其有意義
現代英漢詞典
woodchuck
n.
〈動〉美洲旱獺
現代英漢綜合大辭典
woodchuck
[5wud7tFQk]
n.
(1)旱獺
(2)[美]土撥鼠類
(3)木夾盤
美國傳統詞典
woodchuck
wood.chuck
AHD:[w?d「ch?k」]
D.J.[6wud7t.(k]
K.K.[6w&d7t.(k]
n.
A common burrowing rodent (Marmota monax) of northern and eastern North America, having a short-legged, heavy-set body and grizzled brownish fur. Also called groundhog Regional whistle pig
語源
[By folk etymology, probably of New England Algonquian origin]
註釋
The woodchuck goes by several names in the United States. The most famous of these is groundhog, under which name all the legends about the animal's hibernation have accrued. In the Appalachian Mountains the woodchuck is known as a whistle pig. The word woodchuck 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.
英漢農牧林大詞典
woodchuck
n.旱獺