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
achiles reflex time
agricolist
Amazonian epoch
American grey birch
amphichrony
amsale
anocoelia
aschersonia aleyrodis
basic form
biogenic amine
blast amount meter
blindfolder
blocking agents
buzzer stop
capitalized earningss
Chernikovsk
clear and convincing evidence
columbyl
complete system
coupon policy
curve tracing
DWDI
ecological homeostasis
equilibrize
erick hawkins company
errorlessly
eutrephoceratid
field programmable
fixed slat
flatting out
flocculating settling
Geissler discharge tube
genus Nuytsia
goldthorpes
greesy pig disease
hollow tube fiber
hose rotary
inflagtion-proofing
inflatability
inlet riser
irrigation canal network
jinjiang
Kamou
Kilbirnie
Kiwi nuclear reactor
l/w
laryngofissure
laurelton
leathem
Lefschetz number
Leirochroite
lotio hydragyri oxidi flava
mast table
meatball surgery
Milne Bay
mycterisms
N-BMA
Nafronyloxalate
Neochara
normal-moverout spectrum
order Helotiales
osteopathological
paleoartists
palletization
Pe.
pen-downs
percoco
phytoplankton bloom
potassium hydrogen selenite
presentnesses
pressure decay
product verification test
pseudofentonia (disparia) diluta variegata
Pterospermum menglunense
rack-lashing
recording tide-gauge
refining industries
reinsch test
rigid universal joint
Saracenly
Sassoon
security structure
semireversibility
shayth
short-wave beam antenna
sickel
simuliids
sliced time
sorted circle
staff-full
suarrow
subpatterns
Sweep things under the carpet
t-band matrix
tani foldy transformation
the primary sector
thienoisothiazole
tifenamil
tweetups
underground launcher
vaevictis
winter-killed