时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  今天给大家介绍一个有趣的词语rodeo。不少人欣赏美国的西部牛仔风格,而rodeo恰恰表示“牛仔竞技表演,骑术表演”,怎么样,别有一番美国风味吧?


  Rodeo来自西班牙语rodear,表示“四处转悠,走来走去”(go around)。它的本义是形容圈牛的圆形场地或者畜栏,牛群被“圈”(rounded up)在一个地方接受清点或检查。


  大约1834年,rodeo出现在美语里,表示“围场,把已拢的牛群围在一起的圈地”。直到1914年,才有了现代意义“牧人马术表演”,即一种展示骑马或套牛等技巧的公开表演赛(a contest or exhibition of riding and roping skills)。有时候,rodeo也被用来表示“摩托车花式表演”。


  Rodeo作动词用时,表示“参加竞技”或“(为打烙印而)赶拢牛马”,例如:美国音乐公司Mineral River出版了一本书,书名为“If I Were A Word, Then I'd Be A Song”里收录了比尔·斯坦斯(Bill Staines)的作品“A Cowboy's Hard Times”,里面有这样一段歌词:


  I once was a cowboy, and I used to run wild.


  And I rodeoed, wrangled 1, and rambled 2 in style.


  But I'm too old for horses, too old for the show,


  And I'm too young for Heaven; now where shall I go?



v.争吵,争论,口角( wrangle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • They wrangled over what to do next. 他们就接下来该干什么而争吵。 来自辞典例句
  • They wrangled and rowed with other passengers. 他们与其他旅客争辨吵闹。 来自辞典例句
(无目的地)漫游( ramble的过去式和过去分词 ); (喻)漫谈; 扯淡; 长篇大论
  • We rambled through the woods. 我们漫步走过树林。
  • She rambled on at great length but she didn't get to the heart of the matter. 她夹七夹八地说了许多话也没说到点子上。
学英语单词
abide by contact
accoutre
acrocentric
anti-pollution investment
backward take
baffalo gnat
blade rubbing
blenna narium
busy hour call attempts
Cerevon
champfreins
chudding
compassionate conservatism
creditor side
crush rooms
cyanotypes
Danieline
day or night
demi-mondaines
differential line
Dolak, Pulau
east-north-eastward
entangled light-emitting diode
eried yeast
falco subbuteos
farspark
fast neutron removal kernel
fencelet
FLP recombinase
folk singing
foundation pier
fringing straddling
general knowledge course
greenfuel
gulfstreams
gysarm
hamiltonian variable
have two faces
heautoscopic
helisenne
horizontal agreements
huayno
hydraulically powered silage grab
hypsicephalic
indicator connection plug
irrelevant image
isallobaric gradient
jallouds
joint sealing machine
larimar
levulosazone
Lyonia compta
machine improvement time
main steam line
measuring force
microbiostasis
mistype
mixed semiconductor
multipath echo
myeloscintigram
needle valves
old trout
operating distance
ornebius formosanus
oxyacids
penny wise, pound foolish
percentual
phragmosome
Pilea taitoensis
plainfin
plate nail
praeoperculum
preassembled bridge
quantitative safety goal
retarding potential difference technique
right side heart
rope tackle block
round-hole punched plate
self-stabilization time of tunnel
settling in
seynesia cynanchi
Shoga
shot-down
Sisley, Alfred
small ship combat data system
small-size Diesel electric locomotive
spiritual realm
tailed peak
takeoff climb speed
the digerati
through train with empty cars
tubular well
type specifier
uelcosis
uncaring
union swivel end
unmixt
unpolar
videocube
water finder
water level logics
wounded feelings