The 42-year-old man bought two dead marmots before his death.

这名42岁的男子生前买了两只旱獭。

As just noted, groundhogs are a type of marmot.

2、如上所述，是一旱獭。

The veterinarian said a viral infection caused the marmot's abnormal behavior.

兽医说，病毒感染导致了的异常行为。

So you can accurately say, " Hey, that marmot just saw its shadow."

因此你可以准确地说，“嘿，那只旱獭看见了自已的影子。”

For instance, there's a species of marmot in the Himalayas that spreads gold dust while digging.

例如，在喜马拉雅山上，有一在挖洞时会扬起金粉。

Marmots are members of the Sciuridae family, which makes the groundhog just a really big ground squirrel.

旱獭属于松科，因此只是非常大的地松。

Mongolia's health authorities urged citizens not to hunt or eat marmot to prevent the spread of bubonic plague.

蒙古国卫生促公民不要捕猎或食用旱獭，以防疫蔓延。

They chose the groundhog, a large rodent and member of the marmot family, as the animal to continue the tradition.

他们选择了硕大啮齿类动物、家族一员——作为延续这一传统的动物。

Now you had to read about two animal species, the Eastern marmot and the Olympic marmot.

现在你必须阅读两动物，东方和奥林匹克。

Professor：Uh-ha, so first let’s discuss the Eastern marmots.

教授：呃哈，那我们先来说说东方吧。

(If you were the size of a marmot, yes.) It might be a particularly heavy tread or an even heavier perfume.

(你要是只有那么大，那倒是可以。)也许是一非常重的脚步声，或者是一味道更重的香水。

Because the climate is so harsh, cooperation increases the survival rate of the Olympic marmots.

由于气候如此恶劣，合作提高了奥林匹克的存活率。

This could explain why the social behavior of the Olympic marmots is so unlike that of the Eastern marmots.

这可以解释为什么奥林匹克的社会行为与东如此不同。

The groundhog's scientific name is Marmota monax, making it one of 14 types of marmot that can be found in the Northern Hemisphere.

1、的学名是美洲旱獭，是北半球发现的14旱獭中的一。

Who wouldn't " chuck" the chance to capture a varmint like a marmot carving out the time to " groundhog" every pizza pie he could?

谁会不“放弃”抓住一个像一样的坏蛋的机会呢? 只要他能挤出时间来做“”的披萨饼就行。

This size helps them catch a huge array of prey, including relatively large animals such as  snowshoe hares, large lizards, and marmots.

这体型有助于它们捕捉大量猎物，包括相对较大的动物，如雪兔、大蜥蜴和。

The ancient Persian word for marmot is quite close to the word for ant, so Herodotus may have just fallen prey to a translation error.

在古波斯语中，“”这个单词与“蚂蚁”非常接近，所以，希罗多徳可能是在翻译时弄错了。

So in that much shorter period of time, all the Olympic marmots, male and female, eat, play, work and nurture the young together.

因此，在那短得多的时间内，所有奥林匹克，无论雄性和雌性，都一起吃饭、玩耍、工作和养育后代。

So growing season refers to the availability of the food they eat, OK? So now how would you describe the Eastern marmots’ social habits?

所以生长季节指的是他们吃的食物的可用性，好吗？那么现在你会如何描述东方的社会习惯呢？

There's a lot more to this thing than just this poor little rabbit or marmot or groundhoglike animal that makes strange noises in the middle of the night.

Oates：除了这只在半夜发出奇怪声音的可怜的小兔子、或类似的动物之外，这件事还有很多意义。