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-grav
air kiln
air lubricated guide
anibals
antiacetylcholinesterase
axial rete system
back-trackings
banders
battle bowler
beta-particle
blast pressure recorder
blister figure
buttermarket
cardbearers
cashcards
cissoid
clammy
co sleep
colonial commercial policy
commercial sites index
computer application technology
conflict-solving strategy
coordinate axes
Cordylus
coretraction
coulomb's equation
crevice corrosion test
crew's berthing
desinor
distorted peak
dorsothoracic
doster
double athetosis
double-skin roof
drift reading
electric motor operated fixed crane
electro-optical sensor
ever frozen soil
expect me when you see me
f.is
first felling-line
forestal
forstay
freaky
geography of fishery
girl-shy
go screw oneself
goethes
gratulant
Hakucho
high pressure separator
image monitor
imf credit
Impatiens hancockii
initial magnetization curve
intrafascicular
invalid abort request
irris
johannsenomyia unicincta
Kato Klitoria
kinetomeres
kore
law of accounting
longitudinal elevation
magneto wires
manuring requirement
mb(millibar)
Medeiros
methylene blue tests
multimedia monitor
nagpra
Nicolle's stain
nuclear instruments
octapole
oil supply system of hydropower station
oligopsychia
OLRT
paving beater
polar air mass climate
pressure gauge dash unit
primary aluminum
rebound strain
refutals
restricted element
row counter
sea-gulls
Segre, R.
Simon Peter
sodium dimethylarsenate
Sphingomonas
stand-alone software
stone bench
stuck to her last
symmetrical pair
tea shops
team of professionals specializing in education for the disabled
tisserants
transpalatal
twinest
value of commodity
water beds
wheeled transport