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”抓住一个像土拨鼠一样的坏蛋的机会呢? 只要他能挤出时间来做“土拨鼠”的披萨饼就行。

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

兽医说，病毒感了土拨鼠的异常行为。

Doctors said the 15-year-old herder from a mountain village caught the disease through being bitten by an infected flea possibly from a marmot, a type of ground squirrel that is sometimes cooked for food.

医生称这名来自山村的15岁牧童因被感跳蚤叮咬而上该病，而跳蚤可能来自土拨鼠，这是一种地松鼠，有时被当做食物来烹调。

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、土拨鼠的学名是美洲旱獭，是北半发现的14种旱獭中的一种。

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

(你要是只有土拨鼠那么大，那倒是可以。)也许是一种非常重的脚步声，或者是一种味道更重的香水。

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、土拨鼠家族一员——土拨鼠作为延续这一传统的动物。

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

蒙古国卫生部门敦促公民不要捕猎或食用旱獭，以防鼠疫蔓延。

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，有一种土拨鼠在挖洞时会扬起金粉。

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死去的旱獭。

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，“土拨鼠”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。

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

旱獭属于松鼠科，因此土拨鼠只是种非常大的地松鼠。

As just noted, groundhogs are a type of marmot.

2、如上所述，土拨鼠是一种旱獭。

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。”

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土拨鼠的存活率。

Did you know in Canada, I'm called a marmot?

你知道吗，在加拿大，我被称为土拨鼠？

And there's so many marmots here they renamed it.

这里土拨鼠太多了，所以他们重新命名了它。

Oh, I get it. Since the climate’s not too bad, the Eastern marmots don't have to rely on each other too much and they really don't need to stay together as a family to survive either.

学生：哦，我明白了。由于气候还不错，东方土拨鼠不必太依赖对方，也真的不需要一家人在一起生存。

All my first day was pure pleasure; simply mountaineering indulgence, crossing the dry pathways of the ancient glaciers, tracing happy streams, and learning the habits of the birds and marmots in the groves and rocks.

我的第一天是纯粹的快乐；简单地享受登山的乐趣，穿越古老冰川的干涸小径，追寻快乐的溪流，了解树林和岩石中鸟类和土拨鼠的习性。

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.

奥茨：这件事远不止是一只可怜的小兔子或土拨鼠之类的动物在半夜发出奇怪声音那么简单。

It turns out it is an attempted translation of the highly idiomatic French expression " croquer le marmot" , which means to wait impatiently.

原来， 它是对非常地道的法语表达“croquer le marmot” 的尝试翻译，意思是焦急地等待。