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.
实用例句
1. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.
超链接还可以转到新闻组或gopher 、 Telnet和FTP站点.来自互联网
2. Gopher Prairie is a place of unbearable dullness, conformity, hypocrisy, and oppression.
戈菲尔普雷里就是一个极其乏味 、 因循守旧 、 充满虚伪和压迫的地方.来自辞典例句
3. He discovered there are competitions between two gopher villages in one area.
他发现同一地区的两个囊地鼠群落之间有竞争.来自互联网
4. I want you to kill every gopher on the course!
去杀掉球场所有的地鼠!来自互联网
5. WAIS is also available to Gopher and through WWW ( World Wide Web ).
