Opossums should be a welcome neighbor to your backyards.

“Opossums(负鼠)”呢则是那位常来你家后院的邻居。

Scientists explain that opossums are not acting at all.

科学家们解释说，负鼠根本没有表演。

The opossum is a rare survivor from a South America invasion.

负鼠是南美动物入侵中为数不多的幸存者。

An opossum is a somewhat small animal with a long pointed snout.

负鼠是一种体型稍小的动物，有一个长而尖的鼻子。

This kind of typhus has spread by fleas found on rats, opossums or even pets.

这种斑疹伤寒症是由跳蚤传播的，而这种跳蚤可以在鼠类、负鼠甚至宠物身上发现。

The name " opossum" entered the English language in the early 17th century.

“负鼠”这个名字是在17世纪早期成为英语单词的。

Although the giant ground sloth is now extinct, like the opossum, it has family ties in South America.

尽管巨型地懒已经灭绝，但是像负鼠一样，南美也能找到它的“家庭成员”。

Opossums were one of the first wild animals encountered by white settlers in the English colony of Virginia.

负鼠是白人殖民者在英国殖民地弗吉尼亚最先遇到的野生动物之一。

Scientists explain that opossums are not acting at all. They can't help it!

科学家们解释说负鼠压根不是在装死。它们是控制不住！

If the animal world gave awards for acting, the opossum might win the award for 'Best Death Scene.'

如果在动物世界里，动物们会给表演颁奖的话，负鼠也许会赢得“最佳死亡场景”奖。

Opossums are omnivores. Meaning they will eat anything from plants, fruits, and nuts to bugs, small mammals and even roadkill.

负鼠是杂食动物，这说明它们会吃任何东西，植物、水果、坚果到虫子、小型哺乳动物，甚至是马路上被车撞死的动物。

Boa snakes and kinkajous, opossums and tarantulas, salamanders and moths.

蟒蛇和金蛇、负鼠和狼蛛、火蜥蜴和飞蛾。

" All the plants and fruits are freezing, " cried an opossum.

“所有的植物和水果都冻僵了，”一只负鼠叫道。

There were monkeys, opossums, butterflies, pigs, and all kinds of insects.

有猴子、负鼠、蝴蝶、猪和各种昆虫。

Old Jib was curled comfortably there, watching with friendly interest an opossum who had come by on his night's business.

老吉布舒舒服服地蜷缩在那里，怀着友善的兴趣注视着一只负鼠来这里干他的夜事。

They subsist principally on the flesh of the deer, the coon, and opossum, all of which are plenty in these woods.

它们主要以鹿、浣熊和负鼠的肉为生，这些森林中的这些动物都很丰富。

We cover pretty much anything and everything about the outdoors - so wildlife, cute stories about opossums, stuff like renewable energy, climate change.

我们几乎涵盖了有关户外的一切——野生动物、关于负鼠的可爱故事、可再生能源、气候变化等内容。

Why? Well, even though they are mammals, they have relatively low body temperatures, and that might make it hard for the rabies virus to survive in opossum. Now, that's random.

为什么? 嗯, 即使作为哺乳动物, 它们的体温也相对较低, 这就使得狂犬病毒在负鼠体内很难生存。现在这只是偶然所致。

His passion was for trapping and the hides of raccoons and skunks and opossums and an occasional otter or wild-cat hung drying on the walls of his house.

他热衷于诱捕， 浣熊、臭鼬和负鼠的皮以及偶尔的水獭或野猫的皮挂在他家的墙上晾干。

Not only was the animal about the size of a modern-day opossum with the pointy teeth of a carnivore, it had the dismembered remains of a baby dinosaur called Psittacosaurus in its stomach!

这只动物不仅有现代负鼠那么大， 长着食肉动物的尖牙，它的胃里还有被肢解的小恐龙 Psittacosaurus 的残骸！