deer

英 [dɪə] 美[dɪr]

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n. 鹿
n. (Deer)人名；(英)迪尔

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中文词源

deer 鹿

来自PIE*dheu, 呼吸，水气，烟雾，词源同fume. 原指不确定的野生动物，后词义固定为鹿。参照animal, 动物，原义为呼吸，参照venison, 鹿肉，原指不确定的野生动物肉。

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复数: deer;

英文词源

deer: deer: [OE] In Old English, dēor meant ‘animal’ in general, as opposed to ‘human being’ (as its modern Germanic relatives, German tier, Dutch dier, and Swedish djur, still do). Apparently connected forms in some other Indo-European languages, such as Lithuanian dusti ‘gasp’ and Church Slavonic dychati ‘breathe’, suggest that it comes via a prehistoric Germanic *deuzom from Indo-European *dheusóm, which meant ‘creature that breathes’ (English animal and Sanskrit prānin- ‘living creature’ have similar semantic origins).

Traces of specialization in meaning to ‘deer’ occur as early as the 9th century (although the main Old English word for ‘deer’ was heorot, source of modern English hart), and during the Middle English period it became firmly established, driving out ‘animal’ by the 15th century.
deer (n.): Old English deor "animal, beast," from Proto-Germanic *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (cognates: Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal," also see reindeer), from PIE *dheusom "creature that breathes," from root *dheu- (1) "cloud, breath" (cognates: Lithuanian dusti "gasp," dvesti "gasp, perish;" Old Church Slavonic dychati "breathe").

For prehistoric sense development, compare Latin animal from anima "breath"). Sense specialization to a specific animal began in Old English (usual Old English for what we now call a deer was heorot; see hart), common by 15c., now complete. Probably via hunting, deer being the favorite animal of the chase (compare Sanskrit mrga- "wild animal," used especially for "deer"). Deer-lick is first attested 1778, in an American context.

双语例句

1. It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.: 这将导致马鹿的灭绝。

2. Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer.: 任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。

3. Deer hunting was banned in Scotland in 1959.: 猎鹿于1959年在苏格兰被禁止。

4. We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.: 我们驾车穿过有些破旧的鹿苑。

5. a herd of deer: 一群鹿

英英释意

1. distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

考试真题

In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.

The small community of North Haven on Long Island is home to some six hundred to seven hundred deer

Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road that the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies.

Some people in the town have become ill from deer transmitted diseases

And when that is failed, they stop the hunters, banging on pots and pans to alert the deer.

The activists believe simply that the deer are not the problem

The wolves would kill deer of course.

What do we learn about white-tailed deer in North Haven

They would eventually kill off the deer.

Deer and elk populations — major food sources for the wolf – grew rapidly.

Elk, deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red fores have made a comeback.

实用场景例句

It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.: 这将导致马鹿的灭绝。

Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer.: 任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。

Deer hunting was banned in Scotland in 1959.: 猎鹿于1959年在苏格兰被禁止。

We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.: 我们驾车穿过有些破旧的鹿苑。

a herd of deer: 一群鹿

Observant walkers may see red deer along this stretch of the road.: 观察敏锐的步行者可能在这一路段看到赤鹿。

Before the hunter could take aim , the deer jumped out of sight.: 在猎手瞄准前, 鹿已经逃了.

When the deer saw the hunter, it made off at once.: 鹿一见到猎人, 就立刻跑掉了.

He spent the weekend stalking deer in the Scottish highlands.: 他周末在苏格兰高地追踪鹿的行踪.

He pointed the telescope at a deer on the hillside.: 他把望远镜对着山坡上的一只小鹿.

The hunter hit at a deer with his gun.: 猎人举枪向鹿射去.

The deer in the forest are all dying off from disease.: 森林中的鹿一只接一只地病死了.

The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.: 我踩断了一根树枝,把那头鹿吓惊了.

The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead.: 猎人枪一响,鹿应声倒地死去.

The dog fleshed his fangs in the deer's leg.: 狗用尖牙咬住了鹿腿.

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