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
4-Chlorothymol
Acrocephalops
airwomen
alibi-type transformation
Arguin, C.d'
Atambua
auxiliary floating drydock little
basic military route network
bicolourable graph
buried depth of tunnel
cage of reinforcement
Catuvellauni
caussade
cephas
Chemâma
closed plastic refining machine
compatibility of subprogram
cut someone to the heart
cutoff ratio
cutting edge of die
Dab(Longhead)
dash-mounted
decay storage
designata
Dethyron
Dirax
dottrel
dowsett
estimation of total leaf areas
extent request block
fried bread
frowsy wool
Fulacunda
genetype
geneva numerate
groping end efficiency
guest stars
gyre
hazard category
heavyweight threads
hernuss
hotel one
iim
inoxidizability
interchangeability disk
intervertebral system
intrinsically safe electrical apparatus
jack-leg
jeopardless
Knock Hill
Kotokorom
latex carrier
legitimacy
lembo
lifting system
lumbo-ovarian
lyttons
Madre Occidental, Sa.
maneuvering satellite
manpages
method of moving averages
Minnesota preschool scale
multiconstant theory
non alien
nonpriority interrupt
now seriously
oaks
OCTU
oral robertss
organic ooze
otic ganglions
oven glassware
over-load valve
oxidative nitration
phillipas
pipeline stall
polymeric stealth material
post-marketing
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
pseudoaldosteronism
razor-grinder
regular grammar
safety valve body
see out report
shell mo(u)lding
simultaneous equations
socially necessary labo(u)r
Sonneratia
spipistrellus hesperuss
surentrainement
suspension rod
tendency to soot
tirgu mures (targu-mures)
tuenti
unbalanced tree
underarm circle
varipico
Vecheka
Vedia
waterseal
winglesse
Z disk, Z disc