burrowing squirrel, 1812, American English, perhaps an Englishing of Louisiana French gaufre "honeycomb, waffle," said to have been used by French settlers in reference to small mammals on analogy of the structure of their burrows, from Old French gaufre, walfre (12c.), which is from Frankish or some other Germanic source. The rodent was the nickname of people from Arkansas (1845) and later Minnesota (1872). The gopherwood tree of the Bible (used by Noah to make the ark, Gen. vi:14) is unrelated; it is from Hebrew gofer, name of a kind of wood now unidentified, perhaps meaning the cypress.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.
超鏈接還可以轉(zhuǎn)到新聞組或gopher 、 Telnet和FTP站點(diǎn).
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2. Gopher Prairie is a place of unbearable dullness, conformity, hypocrisy, and oppression.
戈菲爾普雷里就是一個(gè)極其乏味 、 因循守舊 、 充滿(mǎn)虛偽和壓迫的地方.
來(lái)自辭典例句
3. He discovered there are competitions between two gopher villages in one area.