时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2010年


英语课

 In the countryside of Argentina, cowboy life has scarcely changed over the past three centuries. The gaucho 1 is a hero here, a legendary 2 figure larger than life. But these are the real gauchos 3, men who still live this life the way as the gaucho. 


 
If there is such a thing as a classic gaucho, it is Don Jose Ansola. He believes solitude 4 helps preserve the purest form of gaucho life.
 
If I couldn't live in the campo, the countryside—an unthinkable thought—I don't know what I do. I'd rather live in a shack 5 out here than in a palace in the city. There's too much I'd miss: the sound of hoofbeats, the birds of dawn, sipping 6 maté in the clean air, no city has that.
 
Argentina, virtually the last refuge of this life style, is home to nearly 150,000 gauchos. Their herds 7 thrive in the sea of grass, which means that a gaucho's work is never done.
 
The struggle against nature is very beautiful though difficult. In winter, it's cold and wet from morning to night; in summer, brutally 8 hot. But somehow it all gives me strength. It nourishes my soul.
 
The life of a gaucho is one of adaptation, to a climate, to a landscape, and to an ageless way of life that even now sustains them.

1 gaucho
n. 牧人
  • Outside the city there are many countryside ranches for city dwellers to live the gaucho life,or just enjoy country life in the pampas,the grasslands outside buenos aires.城外有许多农庄,可以供城市居民前往居住和体验牛仔生活,或者只是去享受一下草原上的农家生活。
  • There are many working estancias where tourists can live out the gaucho lifestyl
2 legendary
adj.传奇(中)的,闻名遐迩的;n.传奇(文学)
  • Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。
3 gauchos
n.南美牧人( gaucho的名词复数 )
4 solitude
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
5 shack
adj.简陋的小屋,窝棚
  • He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前,他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
  • The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
6 sipping
v.小口喝,呷,抿( sip的现在分词 )
  • She sat in the sun, idly sipping a cool drink. 她坐在阳光下懒洋洋地抿着冷饮。
  • She sat there, sipping at her tea. 她坐在那儿抿着茶。
7 herds
兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众
  • Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
  • There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
8 brutally
adv.残忍地,野蛮地,冷酷无情地
  • The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
  • A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。
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