英语词汇deer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	deer
词源	deer. In King Lear Shakespeare writes of “rats and mice and such small deer.” This reflects the fact that in Old English deor, from which deer derives, meant any wild animal. Only in rela- tively modern times has deer come to mean only the species we identify it with today. See also reindeer.
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