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
A'ana Dist.
abbrev.
Androsace zambalensis
anthracene violet
beilschmiedia
Benzidril
blasting explosive
blobber lips
buffer attenuation
calochromus subparallelus
caple
Chroesthes
constant-velocity
constellatory
coopy
counsellorship
custom-built machine
Dating Game
defibering
devotedly
doormanship
entomognathus siraiya
error of indication of a measuring instrument
estimated federal income tax
Eun.
Euphorbia cyathophora
exophthalmoses
expected actual standard
fideism
first-in-last-out stack
gathering iron
generalized trace facility
geomicrobiology
Glendaruel
great slave lakes
grief-worn
hare's-foot fern
heap property
hemitropal
Hurstville
ideal plate
insect sex attractant
interval length
inward running
irradiation injury
knock (intensity) indicator
lizichev
localized recommendation
Lopës, Mali i
make one's meaning clear
mangel-wurzels
manufacturing margin
Megatrichophyton
mihnea
mirror glass
mixed carcinoma of liver
mixed framing system
mode-pulling effect
Monica Seles
muslinlike
nasomanorneter
Neoathyrium
nonbiologist
nonmicroscopists
nstas
obconica
One-Touch Option
osmograph
overswarth
paid-in capital in excess of stated value
pick-a-tree
Platonovka
poisonous substance
popoi
postpartum thrombus
printer-sharing environment
private brand dealer
real-estate-loan
redetachment
regenerative type absorbent
regional stratigraphy
relay energized
roentgen diagnosis
rough as bags
securities regulatory authority
siber
simple magnetic network
specialized cold store
St-Palais-sur-Mer
stabilization factor
staraxy
temperature-dependent corrosion
tetrahydroxy-stearic acid
tetrazolyl
torcular tourniquet
utilization engineer
v-sit
viennese
viewy
waterjet propulsor
weighted least square method
yellow snow