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
additional estimate
aeschynite
air-screen separator
all one's life's worth
antireformism
Bartoszyce
blank ballot
bleaching tank
blurters
bold lines
bonzess
borrowed money
Caffey's syndrome
captate
Chaush
codenatured
cryptographer
csmc
cycadaceaes
Dantan
day swap
dihydroxydiphenylhexene
dime-a-dozen
DNCR
Endocrinide
field suppression equipment
filamentosa
fleche distance
frontal bones
gardnerella vaginalis
general affair department
Gielgud, Sir John
give someone a piece of one's mind
globoidal cam
Halevy, Ludovic
harsh climate
harshin' on
Heracleum henryi
Hilbert cube
hold-for-delivery service
Hontalbilla
identical morphism
investigatory rapper
khalils
kill the canvas
landing keps
laying it out
lead tetroxide
linek
liopelmas
llbean.com
lucretia mott
martyrologist
Master Boot Record
megathermophyte
Melocalamus scandens
menial
Metacetamol
mini ephedrine
misrating
misrendered
molten salt electrolysis
muggs
non-self propelling ship
Pangkalanbuun
papiliochrome
pedicia (tricyphona) formosana
point probe static characteristic method
pokharis
Precasine
preliminary exploration
preservation orders
press card
reddish violet
retinaculum patellae laterale
roget spiral
RPRT
sanrio
school-college
seasonal channel
semiwall
shirp
shock-proof relays
shower meteor
slink-butcher
smoking cars
spontaneouspneumothorax
spot meter
stainproof
standard language
start at the wrong end
statute book
steatolytic enzyme
steering system
the inevitable
thermionic emission
Thomson relations
tossing board
water flow recorder
wireless panel
zero sequence
Zhelezino