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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a look
adymerin
all-digital television
allenstein (olsztyn)
alterna-
amino aldehyde
Anseropoda
anti-elitisms
Arisaema bockii Engl
at lower rates of N application
attoxicated
big-business
bioconverted
boss nigger
bound task set
BRCM
cabover type
carbusintering
category of groups
cawthornes
commutative mathematics
compact disc recordable
concrete canal lining
construction and additions
controlled crystallization
critical speed of rotor
dip into the future
double buffing machine
endo-N-acetylmuramidase
epoxy-resin
erythematous tonsillitis
esmarelda
fibroid heart
five-star admiral
gas suspension
general object
generator bearing
genus Sinapis
GNMA
group maneuvering control
halichoeres zeylonicus
handling of chemicals
house of national education
insulation testing set
internal conflict
intuitionistic
Itapinima
Kirk.
kolache
Les Ponts-de-Martel
light requirement
like the ass between two bundles of hay
literary
lobus flocculonodularis
long term forecast
looter
Louvigné-de-Bais
lpn
manufacturing hole
miaowling
Morchella esculenta
outer-directed
overindulger
paddle rotor
pannada
patriological
pay my way
peloponeses
Penészlek
physicalizes
physiocrine
polyporus tuberaster
polyundecandiol carbonate
private soldier
proper vibration
pseudonoise sequence
reproductive clonings
roach coaches
roll instability
San Quentin quail
santeros
semi-identical
semidull coal
signal-to-noise distribution
sleeping-in
sleeve-dipole antenna
Steel Strapping
stomatodea
strawberry gum
summer cheilitis
syncope
telephonically
thripps
to act for...
ultrasonic application
underdriving gear set
uselessnesses
V.Fast Class
V.P.d.
wranglin'