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词汇	aardvark
词源	aardvark; aardwolf. Both these animals dig in the earth for termites and ants, the former somewhat resembling a pig, the latter looking a little like a striped wolf. Thus the Boers in South Africa named them, respectively, the aardvark (from the Dutch aard, “earth,” plus vark, “pig”) or “earth pig,” and aard- wolf, or “earth wolf.”
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