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
-zoan
a wet smack
acid chrome black
activistic
air-conditioneds
be gone on sb
bmdoes
borsuk
bottom lock
buoyancy curve
calibration battery
candiac fissure
cardioscribe
carved lacquer bracelet
cataplasms
character array element
compulsive behavior
consolidate
cryptotympana holsti
curtailings
cyclopentamine
damped resonant frequency
delapse
diafiltration
diet basic
dramatic structures
each layer
Eaglehead L.
Ehrlich-Hata preparation (arsphenamine)
electron secondary
elishas
empey
enjoyablenesses
entrancingly
entunes
factory payroll clearing account
femto-meters
fission source term
flat plate floor
flour alumina
foredeep basin
genus Sagina
glutathion peroxidase
gressome
hackford
handling guy
hydraulic pond-digging set
ice store-house
intermontanes
Joe Schmo
kilogram meter
kingpin bearing
kissings
knurds
left neutrino
makallah
Manners make the man
minimum-delay
mobile dental cart unit
monascorubin
muccilaginous
muniate
mush-wound coil
NARAC
noisemaker
nonuples
open conference
PBASS
philonotis cernua
ploverness
press knob
publicize company policy
rate of pitch
redox-catalyst
Rohinari
routine method
rusticated column
savagized
segregative
ship's field error
shock(-wave) tube
shore dune
silt measurement
sodiium-D2O reactor (SDR)
split-phase locomotive
staff and globe buoy
Staphylococcus epidermidis
state trading agency
statutory formula
stickingplaster
strategic nuclear force
take the stump
tea master
terfenadine
the great game
three-quarter view
uncustomed goods
user input area
vibrator supply
vocational-technical
war-bonnet
wheel drive vehicle