reindeer
英['re?nd??]
美['rend?r]
- n. [脊椎][畜牧] 馴鹿
詞態變化
復數:?reindeer;?reindeers;
中文詞源
reindeer 馴鹿
來自古諾斯語 hreindyri,來自 dyr,動物，鹿，詞源同 deer,鹿，hreinn,馴鹿，來自 PIE*ker,角， 詞源同 horn.該詞 rein-本身已經表示鹿，與 rein（韁繩）沒有詞源聯系，巧合的是，這種鹿 確實大量的被人工馴養并用于拉雪橇。
英文詞源
- reindeer (n.)
- c. 1400, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse hreindyri "reindeer," from dyr "animal" (see deer) + hreinn, by itself the usual name for the animal, from Proto-Germanic *khrinda- (cognates: Old English hran "reindeer;" German Renn "reindeer," which was altered by folk etymology influence of rennen "to run;" Swedish ren-ko "female reindeer," with ko "cow" (n.)).
Probably from PIE *krei-, from base *ker- (1) "horn, head," with derivatives referring to horned animals (both male and female reindeer have horns; those of the male are remarkable), and thus perhaps cognate with Greek krios "ram" (see kerato-). Older sources connect it to words in Lapp or Finnish. French renne, Spanish reno, Italian renna ultimately are from Germanic.
雙語例句
- 1. Reindeer receded northward and eastward, and bison and horse followed.
- 馴鹿向北方和東方撤退, 野牛和馬也隨之而去.
來自英漢非文學 - 歷史
- 2. The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.
- 馴鹿時代人的生活是一種邊區生活.
來自辭典例句
- 3. The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.
- 那群馴鹿被一只狼群尋蹤追趕上來.
來自辭典例句
- 4. I thought the magical reindeer made The sleighs fly.
- 不是魔法馴鹿讓雪橇扶搖直上的嗎?
來自電影對白
- 5. Their traditional livelihood revolves around reindeer, which number about 200,000 in Finland.
- 他們傳統的生計是靠芬蘭國內的大約20萬只馴鹿.
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