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
accessory nucleus
adaptive cruise control
akouophone
altitude low temperature test
Amygdalus mongolica
analogue storage expander
azoanisol
beta-Fergusonite
burn cd-rom
busy indicating circuit
cam gearing
charge weitght
chloronium
chromel/alumel thermocouple
chronic apical periodontitis
chronic granuloma of rectum
circumference
cliff swallows
climatic disaster
darabont
data vetting program
delicatessens
displacer level meter
eccentric pivot
electro-optic scattering effect
electronic computer
farm slack season
foscarnets
free-locatable program
gee string
gelatin culture-medium
gigaelectron volt
glazed earthenware
glylene
gun-ownership
hetero epitaxy
high frequency shale shaker
high pressure gas drive
index of average land values
information-semantic
insulinasc
introgressed
isurus glaucuss
keratosis follicularis
lateral incisor
laurie
lay (saxon)
Lime-method
maccheroni
medard
Mercurea
metster
middle-elevation
Mijoux
millirad/hour
Modified pass-throughs
monitor concept
Monte León
mr. clean
Naphthoxetol
needle wax crystals
Nelaton's tumor
neusner
nickoloff
nonvalatile
noyful
open centrifugal pump
ordering of entries
ossa intermaxillare
over hard
phenocamphor
policy scope
preferential ballot
prohibitionistic
projection conduit
put the skids under sb
PWD (pulse width discriminator)
quality time
radio-frequency squid
reckoning for
S-completion
salicylic acid 1-naphthyl ester
sargentiae
scharffenberger
screwing me over
Sheldon Springs
sigmoscopy
silicon solid photographic sensor
small white turkey
splash pocket
square check irrigation
steel plate girder
terminal-oriented network
Tyrode's soiutions
unacknowledged information transfer service
underground water course
unneod
Vilene
Wendlandia laxa
xalogen
xiphophorus maculatus
zygomaticomaxillary suture