名詞 deer:

1. distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
   同義詞：cervid

1. The deer escaped to the deep forest.
   那鹿逃入了叢林深處。
2. The deer winded the stalkers.
   那只鹿嗅出了偷偷接近的獵人。
3. The dog roused a deer from the bushes.
   狗驚起了叢林中的一只鹿。
4. There is a decomposing corpse of a deer.
   那兒有一具鹿的腐尸。
5. But mice and rats, and such small deer. Have been Tom's food for seven long years.
   長達七年之久，湯姆僅靠老鼠耗子之類的小動物為食。
6. The deer lowered its head to drink from the pond.
   鹿低下頭去喝池塘里的水。
7. The moose looks like deer.
   駝鹿看上去像鹿。
8. The white-lipped deer are rare in this area.
   白唇鹿在這個地區(qū)很罕見。

deer

n.（名詞）
【復(fù)數(shù)】 deer
Any of various hoofed ruminant mammals of the family Cervidae, characteristically having deciduous antlers borne chiefly by the males. The deer family also includes the elk, moose, caribou, and reindeer.
鹿：鹿科動物中的任何一種有蹄的反芻哺乳動物，特征是雄鹿生有會脫落的角。鹿科動物也包括駝鹿、麋、北美馴鹿以及馴鹿

來源：
Middle English der [beast]
中古英語 der [野獸]
from Old English dôor
源自 古英語 dôor

<注釋>In various Middle English textsone finds a fish, an ant, or a fox called ader, the Middle English ancestor of our worddeer. In its Old English formdôor, our word referred to any animal, including members of the deer family,and continued to do so in Middle English,although it took on the specific sense .a deer..By the end of the Middle English period, around 500,the general sense had all but disappeared. Deer is a commonly cited example of a semantic process called specialization,by which the range of meaning of a word is narrowed or restricted.When Shakespeare uses the expression .mice and rats, and such small deer. for Edgar`s diet inKing Lear, probably written in '05, we are not sure whetherdeer has the general or the specific sense.
在各種各樣的中世紀英語文章中，人們可以發(fā)現(xiàn)魚、螞蟻或狐貍被稱為der ， 這是單詞deer 在中世紀英語中的雛形。 該詞的古英語形式為deor， 指任何一種動物， 包括鹿科動物的成員，該用法一直延續(xù)到中世紀英語中。盡管當時該詞接納了.鹿.這一特定的意思，但到中世紀英語時期結(jié)束時，大約是500年，該詞的普通意思全部消失了。 Deer 常被引用作為語意變遷過程中的特殊化的例子，通過特殊化的過程，單詞的語意范圍縮小了，或受到了限制。當莎士比亞在大約'05年寫李爾王 的時候，用.mice and rats，and such small deer.來表示愛德加的飲食時， 我們無法確定deer 是指普通意思還是指其特定的意思