deer
英 [d??]
美[d?r]
- n. 鹿
- n. (Deer)人名；(英)迪爾
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?deer;
中文詞源
deer 鹿
來(lái)自PIE*dheu, 呼吸，水氣，煙霧，詞源同fume. 原指不確定的野生動(dòng)物，后詞義固定為鹿。參照animal, 動(dòng)物，原義為呼吸，參照venison, 鹿肉，原指不確定的野生動(dòng)物肉。
英文詞源
- deer
- deer: [OE] In Old English, dēor meant ‘a(chǎn)nimal’ 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 ‘a(chǎn)nimal’ 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.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.
- 這將導(dǎo)致馬鹿的滅絕。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer.
- 任由鹿糟蹋會(huì)很容易把莊稼都?xì)Я恕?/dd>
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Deer hunting was banned in Scotland in 1959.
- 獵鹿于1959年在蘇格蘭被禁止。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.
- 我們駕車穿過(guò)有些破舊的鹿苑。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. a herd of deer
- 一群鹿
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》