opossum

詳細解釋：

o.pos.sum

n.（名詞）
【複數】 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
負鼠：一種夜間行動的雜食性樹棲種袋鼠，尤指生長於西半球的負鼠 ，毛皮粗糙厚實，身體較長且粗，長有纏繞性的長尾 參見 possum
Any of several similar marsupials of Australia belonging to the family Phalangeridae.
袋貂：一種與負鼠相似的澳大利亞袋鼠，屬於袋貂家族

來源：
Virginia Algonquian
維吉尼亞的阿爾貢金語

<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opossum 把我們帶回到了早期的美國社會。 倫敦公司，作為開拓殖民地的委託者，在'07年建立了維吉尼亞詹姆斯敦的居民點。即使在最初的年代裡很困難，激進文學也開始抬頭。在其中有一篇於'0年出版的維吉尼亞殖民地的真實宣言 ， 其中有一段.一種形似豬的動物.，就是最早的關於opossum 的記錄， 雖然它的拼寫和現在我們所使用的維吉尼亞阿爾貢金語的拼寫有所不同。詞語opossum 和其縮寫形式 possum 最初於'3年記錄在更加激進的文學作品中， 讓我們回想起當新大陸還很陌生而且只有很少的居住者時，已有許多對於新大陸並不陌生的土著居民