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
abderamane
abstraite
accuracy life
agathomyia hardyi
ailp back
artbond
beater bar
biological gases
blocking operation
book-tour
boringest
brainhood
cerebral surgery instruments set
chemoluminescence
circuit-base plate
cocirculated
colored
coruna
crystal test set
cubango
dignam
discreditors
double drafting
Dyson swarm
emsa
fee earnings
fish gigs
Flandrian transgression
flux bath dross
fooless
forca
fruticous tundra
Fstype
gotten on for
Grahamston
granadas
hierodeacon
high-speed computational capability
hooked bone
HT (high tension)
Huber, Franeais
hyperhidrotics
in a word
in the old fashion
instructionals
interpretive subroutine
joanna
kimblewicks
kota bharu (kota baharu)
kufi
leeside trough
mcgree
microbanks
nifurmerone
nypas
oncotomy
orthodiagra
ouren
overcurrent protective coordination
paddlesteamer
papillote
Parapitchblende
parthemollin
phase III clinical trial
phebe
phospholaban
photo-electric flue gas detector
photorefractively
pigment granules
plimmer
pneumatic extinguisher
polypropylene belt
poss LQ
prostomial
purple blotch
quartzcrystal
reacknowledges
redistributing
reserve for bonded debts
room light
root run
ruby fused alumina
rym
setcreasea purpurea
Seven Islands B.
Shoshonian language
solid cylindrical rotor
stability of solution
Stolen Generations
Suphah
synchro resolver differential transmitter
tendon ofperoneus tertius
thermovulcanizate
three-seeded
turmeric test paper
unculture
under utilization
undervest
untranslatably
unwitches
water transportation enterprises
weigelas