名詞 opossum:

1. small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
   同義詞：phalanger, possum
2. nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
   同義詞：possum

o.pos.sum

n.（名詞）
【復(fù)數(shù)】 opossum 或 o.pos.sums
Any of various nocturnal, usually arboreal marsupials of the family Didelphidae, especiallyDidelphis marsupialis of the Western Hemisphere, having a thick coat of hair, a long snout, and a long prehensile tail. See Regional Note at possum
負(fù)鼠：一種夜間行動(dòng)的雜食性樹(shù)棲種袋鼠，尤指生長(zhǎng)于西半球的負(fù)鼠 ，毛皮粗糙厚實(shí)，身體較長(zhǎng)且粗，長(zhǎng)有纏繞性的長(zhǎng)尾 參見(jiàn) possum
Any of several similar marsupials of Australia belonging to the family Phalangeridae.
袋貂：一種與負(fù)鼠相似的澳大利亞袋鼠，屬于袋貂家族

來(lái)源：
Virginia Algonquian
弗吉尼亞的阿爾貢金語(yǔ)

<注釋>The wordopossum takes us back to the earliest days of the United States. The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in '07 by the London Company, chartered for the planting of colonies.Even though the first years were difficult,promotional literature was glowing.In one such piece,A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, published in '0, we find this passage: .There are . . . Apossouns, in shape like to pigges..This is the first recorded use ofopossum, although in a spelling that differs from the one later settled on to reproduce the sound of the Virginia Algonquian word from which our word came.The wordopossum and its shortened form possum, first recorded in '3 in more promotional literature, remind us of a time when the New World was still very new, settlers were few,and the inhabitants for whom the New World was not new were plentiful.
詞語(yǔ)opossum 把我們帶回到了早期的美國(guó)社會(huì)。 倫敦公司，作為開(kāi)拓殖民地的委托者，在'07年建立了弗吉尼亞詹姆斯敦的居民點(diǎn)。即使在最初的年代里很困難，激進(jìn)文學(xué)也開(kāi)始抬頭。在其中有一篇于'0年出版的弗吉尼亞殖民地的真實(shí)宣言 ， 其中有一段.一種形似豬的動(dòng)物.，就是最早的關(guān)于opossum 的記錄， 雖然它的拼寫和現(xiàn)在我們所使用的弗吉尼亞阿爾貢金語(yǔ)的拼寫有所不同。詞語(yǔ)opossum 和其縮寫形式 possum 最初于'3年記錄在更加激進(jìn)的文學(xué)作品中， 讓我們回想起當(dāng)新大陸還很陌生而且只有很少的居住者時(shí)，已有許多對(duì)于新大陸并不陌生的土著居民