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

兽医说，病毒感染导致了土拨鼠的异行为。

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。

As just noted, groundhogs are a type of marmot.

2、如上所述，土拨鼠是一种旱獭。

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大的地松鼠。

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

蒙古卫生部门敦不要捕猎或食用旱獭，以防鼠疫蔓延。

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。”

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。

(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。)也许是一种非重的脚步声，或者是一种味道更重的香水。

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。

The adult marmots instantly go on alert looking for the threat.

成土拨鼠立即提高警惕，寻找威胁。

There are lots of predators around here and marmots are on the menu.

这里有很多食肉动物，土拨鼠就是它们的菜单之一。

Kanak, the grumpy marmot, was also staring at the misty image.

脾气暴躁的土拨鼠卡纳克也盯着那模糊的图像。

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

现在你必须阅读两种动物，东方土拨鼠和奥林匹克土拨鼠。

The marmots keep an eye on him.

土拨鼠时刻注视着他。

He's even more cautious than the marmots are, which makes him a good sentinel.

他甚至比土拨鼠还要谨慎，这使他成为一名优秀的哨兵。

Marmots live in small colonies with maybe 30 marmots housed close together in a cluster of burrows.

土拨鼠生活在小群体中，大约有 30 只土拨鼠聚集在一起，栖息在一簇洞穴中。

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

教授：呃哈，那我们先来说说东方土拨鼠吧。

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土拨鼠的社会行为与东部土拨鼠如此不同。