woodchuck

n. 土拨鼠

wood.chuck

n.（名词）
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
北美土拨鼠，美洲旱獭：北美北部和东部的一种普通的穴居啮齿类动物（北美土拨鼠） ，有短腿、健壮的身体和灰棕色的皮毛 也作 groundhog【区域的】 whistle pig

来源：
[By folk etymology, probably of New England Algonquian origin]
[根据民间传说，可能源自新英格兰阿尔贡金语]

<注释>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