时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(二月)


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Cowboy Culture Takes Over America's Fourth-Largest City


On parade day, horses displace cars on the streets of America's fourth-largest city.

“We have never seen so many cowboys and cows and horses all together with the trail wagons,” one spectator said.

The parade of horse flesh, cowboys and cowgirls has kicked off the annual Houston Livestock 1 Show and Rodeo since 1938.

But since that time, Houston and other U.S. cities have grown larger, and very few children now grow up in rural areas with horses and cows.

Horses were the main attraction for many children in this crowd.

City kids may well get that chance. Most of the rodeo parade riders live in urban areas and get access to horses through associations and clubs in nearby rural areas.

Every year groups assemble at various locales in Texas, some hundreds of kilometers away, and ride into Houston, setting up overnight camp at Memorial Park.

For some, like Houstonian Santos Cruz, this is a chance to connect with history. “I wanted to have a feeling of how our ancestors had to cross this prairie at one time or another when there were no cars,” he said.

The annual trail rides are also a chance to socialize and for riders to get together with friends they may not see otherwise.

Gerald Barkley of Crockett, Texas, and his friend Donald Kimble of Terrell, Texas, meet up here every year with other friends they have made on the trail rides.

“We all get together and enjoy each other and some of us haven't seen each other in a year, so that brings out all the good to me,” Kimble said.

But they also say these rides maintain an important Texas tradition.

“They promote this way of life so it does not fade away from existence,” Barkley added.

At least this one time every year, many city and suburban 2 folk get a chance to experience a bit of that cowhand 3 life of old.



1 livestock
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
2 suburban
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
3 cowhand
n.牛仔,牧牛工
  • Do you know the legend of the Cowhand and Weaver Maid?你知道牛郎和织女的传说吗?
  • A cowhand herds cattle past a petroleum processing plant.一个牧牛人赶着一群牛在一家石油加工厂附近经过。
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a program parade
acoustic instrument
adenyl(yl) luciferin
afternoons
ammolite
anterior choroid plexus
antithesis
apparent defect
billet shear
biopsy of nasopharynx
bit commitment
bond moment
breathing control center
buethe
Burnet, Sir(Frank)Macfarlane
Ca Mau, Ban Dao
cellobiohydrolases
circular telegram
connection index
creep error
Cycloidea
day-to-day posting
democratic republic
diaclase
Dovonex
drop shaft sinking method with mud filled behind the caisson
electric inertia
estful
Eusebius of Nicomedia
fawn
flicker principle
Foleyet
formulised
Fruitillar
FYI
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give somone a cold shoulder
Grosseth
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have the pick of
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holming
leacs
leaf end
lift off a seat
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magnetic powder core
Magnolia Beach
Mall of America
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Minabe
misguidedly
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newfanglist
nonpalatable
nowle
Ouman
overproliferates
panel point
Parietti's culture-medium
Permanently delete all messages in Trash
PHRYGANEIDAE
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sponsored wedding
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use ... name
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