The creature called elk in Europe is a member of the species (Alces alces)known in North America as moose. The name is also applied to the extinct Irish elk.

Alces alces在欧洲通称麋鹿，在北美称为驼鹿。elk一词亦可适用于已绝灭的爱尔兰麋)。

That was answered when scientists discovered several animals--hamsters, mice, cats, elk , mink, sheep and humans--that have genes that control the making of PrP

还有PrP原先来自何处的问题，当科学家们发现了数种动物--仓鼠、小鼠、猫、麋、水貂、绵羊以及人都含有控制制造PrP的基因后，此问题得到了解答。

The Elk Test was brought about to check a car′s ability to swerve and avoid a collision.

进行麋鹿试验是为了考察汽车突然转向和避免碰撞的能力。

One of a pair of hornlike,bony,deciduous growths,usually elongated and branched,on the head of a deer,moose,elk ,caribou,or other member of the deer family.

鹿角，鹿茸如鹿、麋、北美驼鹿、驯鹿或其它种类的鹿科动物，其头上的可自行脱落的骨质角状，通常为长且分叉的一对生长物之一

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.

鹿鹿科动物中的任何一种有蹄的反刍哺乳动物，特征是雄鹿生有会脱落的角。鹿科动物也包括驼鹿、麋、北美驯鹿以及驯鹿

Relations of Elk with Primitive Rice and Chinese Culture

麋鹿和原始稻作及中华文化

elk hound=Norwegian elkhound)

挪威的一种猎犬

A soft,thick,undyed leather made chiefly from the skins of buffalo,elk ,or oxen.

浅黄色皮革一种主要由水牛皮，驼鹿皮或公牛皮制成的柔软的，坚韧的未染色的皮革

A light,pliant leather of horsehide or calfskin,tanned and finished to resemble elk hide.

软鞣粗皮一种鞣制得象麋鹿皮一样的轻盈、柔韧的马皮或小牛皮

It can infect all cloven-hoofed animals--cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, water buffalo, deer, bison, antelope, reindeer, llamas, chamois, alpacas, vicunas, giraffes, impala, elk , and camels.

它可以感染所有的有蹄类动物一牛、山羊、绵羊、猪、水牛、鹿、野牛、羚羊、驯鹿、驼羊、跳羚、羊驼、驼马、长颈鹿、黑斑羚、麋鹿和骆驼。

civic clubs such as the Lion’s Club, the Elk ’s Club and the Rotary Club take part in local community projects

像狮子会(Lion’s Club)、角鹿社(Elk’s Club)、扶轮社(Rotary Club)这样的市民会社，都参与了地方社区的计划活动。

A herd,especially of buffalo or elk .

一群野牛，一群驼鹿

In Sweden, many elk and other animals are killed in road accidents, and the danger for human car occupants is all too obvious, as the weight of an elk′s body crashing into a car can crush the front window and roof.

在瑞典，许多麋鹿和其它动物都死于公路事故，且它们对于车内乘客的威胁也是显而易见的，因为撞车的麋鹿的身体重量很有可能击碎前窗和车顶。

These animals, and also horses, can be infected. Susceptible wildlife are reindeer, elk , caribou, deer, otter, coyotes and bison.

这些动物以及马匹可以被传染。敏感的野生动物有驯鹿、麋鹿、北美驯鹿、鹿、水獭、草原狼和野牛。

According to Science Magazine, a recent report states that in order to grow bigger antlers, elk risk life and limb.

《科学杂志》最近的一份报道称，为了长出更大的鹿角，麋鹿要冒着生命和断肢的风险。

||1:When the explorers Lewis and Clark arrived in Montana in 1805 they found more wildlife than they had seen in any other part of their journey; elk , antelope, deer, beavers and grizzly bears.||2:The buffalo came in “gangues” of tens of thousands.||3:Restoring the abundance seen by early explorers, and with nothing more than private money, is a worthy gift to any nation.

||1:1805年，当探险者刘易斯和克拉克抵达蒙大纳时,他们发现了很多野生动物，有麋鹿、羚羊、鹿、海狸和灰熊，比他们以往旅途中所到过的每个地方都多。||2:数以万计的野牛进入蒙大拿州。||3:对任何国家来说，利用私人资金，恢复早期探险者所看见的丰富而多样的世界，是一件极具价值的事情。

||1:It is nearly half a century since biologists first asked Congress to re-introduce wolves into Yellowstone, so that they might usefully eat some of the elk then lumbering about in over-large herds.||2:Getting to the point of releasing wolves in the mid-1990s involved executive actions and directives from six presidents, debates in dozens of congressional committees, 120 public hearings, more than 160,000 public submissions to federal wildlife bosses and at least $12m-worth of scientific research.||3:Pro- and anti-wolf types drew up competing technical reports about the value of wolves as “apex predators”, economic costs to cattle ranchers, tourism benefits and elk ecology.||4:This techno-rationalist arms race bought no peace: the wolf-wars blaze as fiercely as ever.

||1:近半个世纪以前，生物学家首次要求国会再次为黄石公园引进狼群，让它们吃掉马鹿，以有效减少这个过于庞大的群体。||2:在20世纪90年代中期，释放狼群这个决定牵扯了行政措施以及六名总统的指令，国会委员会进行了多次争辩，召开了120场公众听证会，野生生物管理局官员们收到了超过160,000篇公众意见书，政府投入了至少一亿两千万去进行科学研究。||3:支持引入狼群和反对者们竞相起草各种科技报告，如关于狼群作为“顶端捕食者”的价值，养牛场场主的经济成本，旅游收益以及马鹿生态。||4:这种技术武装的理论者竞争闹得没有宁日：狼群之争一如既往地激烈。

||1: IN A quiet spot in eastern Montana, on rolling golden prairies and under vast skies, 71 buffalo calves charge out of a corral. Kicking up dust as they run, they quickly join a herd of several hundred American buffalo of all ages. ||2: The calves had arrived by road from Elk Island reserve in Canada; they are pure descendants of the buffalo that once lived in this area. ||3: At the end of the 19th century just a few were saved from American hunters and bred, in peace, on the other side of the border.

||1:在美国蒙大拿州东部一块安静的草原上，天空广阔无垠，金色草原延绵起伏。71头刚从栅栏中被释放出来的小野牛，奔向草原，地上的尘土被他们跑动的蹄子卷到半空高。很快，他们就加入了一个由几百只美洲野牛组成的牛群中，这个牛群拥有不同年龄段的野牛。||2:这些小野牛们是通过公路从加拿大鹿岛自然保护区运送到蒙大拿州的；他们是纯正的美洲野牛，其祖先曾经生活在这里。||3:到上世纪19世纪末，只有一少部分野牛因在边境的另一边，幸免于美国狩人的猎杀，能够安然无恙的生活并幸存下来。

Elk regrow their antlers every year, and the longer they have to do this, the bigger and better their chances are for the fall mating season.

麋鹿每年都会重新长出鹿角，它们做这件事情的时间越长，秋天的交配季节到来时长出的鹿角就可能越大、越好。

At mile thirty I came around a sharp curve and found myself facing a herd of elk about to cross the road.

30英里处我刚驶过一个急转弯就遇见一群横穿马路的麋鹿。

"This species barely survived the intensive grazing of cattle, elk and deer on Santa Rosa Island, " Knudsen said.

SantaRosa岛上，牛、麋鹿，还有鹿的放牧，使得C.奥巴马这个物种很难幸存。

Unfortunately, elk absolutely love aspen trees, which meant that soon enough they were all gone.

不幸的是，驼鹿显然酷爱白杨树，很快，白杨树绝迹了。

But one need not invoke elk antlers to justify progressive taxation.

但要为实施累进税的合理性做辩护，没必要用上麋鹿角的例子。

According to Johansson, it looked very much like the elk was severely drunk after eating too many fermenting apples.

根据约翰逊的说法，这只鹿似乎是吃了太多腐烂发酵的苹果才这样醉醺醺的。

Now that all was well, I was glad to have spent those few hours of wildness with the elk .

既然一切都安然无恙，我也很高兴能和一头麋鹿在野外共同渡过了几个小时。

They are powerful hunters that travel many miles to find prey, such as elk and wild boar, on nocturnal hunts.

老虎是出色的猎手，可以在夜间迂回数英里捕食诸如驼鹿、野山羊这样的猎物。

Not far from the elk , Miller opens an inconspicuous security door into the museum’s private world.

离麋鹿不远处，Miller开启了一扇通向博物馆秘密世界的不起眼的安全门。

Elk are the most abundant large mammals in Yellowstone National Park, numbering some 30, 000 in the summer.

麋鹿是黄石国家公园里数量最多的哺乳动物，夏天约有三万只。

When the elk got up, the tarp slid off.

麋鹿站起来的时候，防水布从它身上滑落。

Elk and bears regularly walk underneath, and the visitor book is filled with stories of feeding squirrels and birds by hand.

树林里常有麋鹿和熊出没，旅客留言簿里记满了亲手为松树和鸟儿喂食的故事。

irish elk

n.大角鹿,爱尔兰麋

elk’s horn

麋茸

elk leather

麋皮革

elk side leather

多脂铬铝鞣鞋面革

dressed elk hair

驼鹿把毛

dressed elk skin

熟驼鹿皮