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。
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air-lancing
all-stainless
assession
audiography
axial flow impulse turbine
baffled multipass heat exchanger
Bambili
biotechware
black-boards
blackney
blamestorming
bridal registry
caviar spoons
cell cohomology group
central processing unit time
cognac
continuous type analogue correlator
controlling spring
CTK1
dartsonde
Deu'oplasm
diesel fuel improver
digitenolglycoside
dim sums
dorsocentral hysterosomal seta
dotardly
drip-proof insulator
Drummond Castle
dyostyle
electron-unit
electrophori
Elqui, R.
Evans, Walker
foregrips
format text
fumarimide
giganto-cerebellum
go the limit
gracilaria firma
great wheel
gross finding
hardware handshake
have communication with
heattransfer conductance
heredofamilial tremor
Hibbs, Pt.
high tenacity viscose fibre
hiveminds
hydrodemetallization
imf par value
intrinsic number
Jagalūr
klepper
knot-holes
krasovskii
kronig's steps
laughing thrushes
load summary
make sentences with
marc jacobs
mass-spectrometer tube
micro-manganese nodule
microcode language
mutomboko
natural amputation
Norråker
ox wagon
pairing of electrons
phaeoisariopsis pruni-grayanae sawada
phone collect
planuria
polyvinyl-formaldehyde
Pseudococcidae
pulp catcher
pulp filter
pycnonotus jocosus
raw wool
refurbished
repair work norm
repeated transmission
reuser
ring manometer
sapropelic coal
scrupulant
ship-carpenter
shovel-shaped
single rod agitator
Smithsburg
specification language
ST_having-and-owning_belongings-and-possessions
Sulfa-5-Methoxypyrimidine
sweet persimmon
tape joint
the three graces
tire cord fibres
tomassetti
tone poem
trolls
tropical revolving storm (trs)
Tsentral'nyy-Kospashskiy
twin-screw pump
upper-class