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
-olide
applications programme
art rock
audiolingual skills
Bandi R.
blow jobber
botstein
broadcast transmitter intellect test instrument
calathus
central isomorphism
circumstantly
citicoline
civil service protection and training statistics
climatic cycle
Corniger
coronary suture
Dreistelzberg
drug dependence
ead.
east-southeast
elchi butti
electron ratio
false heart wood
faulters
flaking station
foot of a perpendicular
FTNMR
functional lesion
gap energy
gastralgia
geocentric longitude
gluteline
Gungnamji
gypsoid
have the laugh over someone
heterogenization
hewins
homothallic organism
humphrey pt.
inquiry and subscriber display
jecoric acid
jurubidine
kingposts
line-switching type
lymphangictodes
marakkanam (merkanam)
marlen
media necrosis
microteaching
middlesbroes
mirabelle prune
mono-aminodicarboxylic acid
mural tunnel
normative document
north dakotas
nuclear-emulsion film
nucleus propticus parvocelluralis
o-tert-amyl phenol
one on the city
Ortazol
orthogonal increment process
ouvre
ovum(pl. ova)
pass-the-buck
precogitating
pressure remanent magnetization
private stream
professional career
properispome
pumaren
puttable
q-analog
queensides
recellularization
relic coiling
reset key
residivation
rila
round-head machine screw with grommet nut
rule border
sackcloth-and-ashes
seat-mile
secretary-treasurers
self-inductor
shuichanglium formation
single-channel per carrier (scpc)
single-cut
sit at the stern
soapnuts
spectroscopy by diffraction grating
sphincter urethrae
spiral-bounds
standby radio canggel
Staphylococcus pharyngis
static condensation
through rose-coloured glasses
trachy
tube-in-tube condenser
vinelli
well performance
white lines
Zermatt