名詞 woodchuck:

1. reddish brown North American marmot
   同義詞：groundhog, Marmota monax

wood.chuck

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嚙齒類動(dòng)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(qū)域的】 whistle pig

來源：
[By folk etymology, probably of New England Algonquian origin]
[根據(jù)民間傳說，可能源自新英格蘭阿爾貢金語]

<注釋>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.
土撥鼠在美國(guó)有好幾個(gè)名字。最有名的是groundhog， 在這個(gè)名字中關(guān)于動(dòng)物冬眠的傳奇已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了。在阿巴拉契亞山脈，土撥鼠被認(rèn)作whistle pig 。 woodchuck 這個(gè)詞可能是新英格蘭阿爾貢金語中民間起源的語匯──就是說， 講英語的殖民者的把這個(gè)印度語單詞根據(jù)這種動(dòng)物的習(xí)性.翻.成了兩個(gè)字的合成詞，以使其有意義