會挖洞的那隻動物
這一家就是核心畫面本身：北美洲和中美洲那隻住在地道裡的小動物。
noun · B2
A small animal with strong front claws and big front teeth that digs long tunnels and lives under the ground. It is about the size of a large rat and is found in North and Central America.
地鼠（囊鼠）
核心畫面
A small animal that lives by digging. You meet the round hole and the little pile of loose earth first, and the animal itself only sometimes. The name is short, friendly and very American, and that is what lets it travel: when people borrow it, they are borrowing a likeable name, not a description.
可以想成一隻整天在地底下挖來挖去的小動物。你先看到草地上的圓洞和一小堆鬆土，才偶爾看到牠本人。這個名字短、好念，在美…更多收起
可以想成一隻整天在地底下挖來挖去的小動物。你先看到草地上的圓洞和一小堆鬆土，才偶爾看到牠本人。這個名字短、好念，在美國也很有親切感。gopher 後來跑到電腦世界，靠的就是這個「好用的名字」，而不是「挖洞」這個動作。From the word’s history
Perhaps adapted from Cajun French gaufre, literally honeycomb or waffle: the holes in the ground look like the little hollows in a honeycomb or a waffle. Another suggestion is a Muskogean source. Neither is settled.
來源沒有定論。一種說法是來自卡津法語 gaufre（蜂巢、鬆餅）：地上一個一個的洞，看起來就像蜂巢或鬆餅上的凹格。另一種說法是來自北美原住民的 Muskogean 語。兩種說法都還沒有定論。
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Two branches
名字被借到電腦世界
這一家跟挖洞沒有關係，關係在「名字」。來源記載：早期網路系統 Gopher 誕生於美國明尼蘇達大學，而那所學校的吉祥物就是 gopher。名字從動物跳到機器，之後又跳到人身上。
noun · C1
An early Internet system for finding and reading documents, in which you work down through lists of menus, choosing one line at a time, until you reach the file you want. It is usually written with a capital G.
Gopher（早期網路檢索系統）
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gophername
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historicalAn Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.
gophernoun詞源 1/ˈɡəʊfə/
- 1
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
- 2
A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
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A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
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A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
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slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsA Go programmer.
- I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。