时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2010年


英语课

 In the countryside of Argentina, cowboy life has scarcely changed over the past three centuries. The gaucho 1 is a hero here, a legendary 2 figure larger than life. But these are the real gauchos 3, men who still live this life the way as the gaucho. 


 
If there is such a thing as a classic gaucho, it is Don Jose Ansola. He believes solitude 4 helps preserve the purest form of gaucho life.
 
If I couldn't live in the campo, the countryside—an unthinkable thought—I don't know what I do. I'd rather live in a shack 5 out here than in a palace in the city. There's too much I'd miss: the sound of hoofbeats, the birds of dawn, sipping 6 maté in the clean air, no city has that.
 
Argentina, virtually the last refuge of this life style, is home to nearly 150,000 gauchos. Their herds 7 thrive in the sea of grass, which means that a gaucho's work is never done.
 
The struggle against nature is very beautiful though difficult. In winter, it's cold and wet from morning to night; in summer, brutally 8 hot. But somehow it all gives me strength. It nourishes my soul.
 
The life of a gaucho is one of adaptation, to a climate, to a landscape, and to an ageless way of life that even now sustains them.

1 gaucho
n. 牧人
  • Outside the city there are many countryside ranches for city dwellers to live the gaucho life,or just enjoy country life in the pampas,the grasslands outside buenos aires.城外有许多农庄,可以供城市居民前往居住和体验牛仔生活,或者只是去享受一下草原上的农家生活。
  • There are many working estancias where tourists can live out the gaucho lifestyl
2 legendary
adj.传奇(中)的,闻名遐迩的;n.传奇(文学)
  • Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。
3 gauchos
n.南美牧人( gaucho的名词复数 )
4 solitude
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
5 shack
adj.简陋的小屋,窝棚
  • He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前,他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
  • The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
6 sipping
v.小口喝,呷,抿( sip的现在分词 )
  • She sat in the sun, idly sipping a cool drink. 她坐在阳光下懒洋洋地抿着冷饮。
  • She sat there, sipping at her tea. 她坐在那儿抿着茶。
7 herds
兽群( herd的名词复数 ); 牧群; 人群; 群众
  • Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
  • There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
8 brutally
adv.残忍地,野蛮地,冷酷无情地
  • The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
  • A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。
学英语单词
accommodating transaction
additional element
Adrianouplis
air-ground radiotelephone
appointment of trustee
atmospheric vacuum distillation process
Ban Nong Hang
bends over
beneficial power
boded
body mechanics
Bursa subcutanea infrapatellaris
camile
carboxyheptyl
cerebral pia mater
cermet for cargo gear
charcoal revivifyig plant
circuit length
coincidence tuning
confirmed leeter of credit
conspecificity
deactivation of molecule
dichroa febrifuga lour.
die for special purpose
dilly bags
dividend check
domination principle
dual well
electrocardiogram scale
exilest
filtration control agent
fire assaying
first-order design
floating ring transmission
flylan (vlieland )
forebay dam
funis presentation
galeopsis tetrahits
genus Hypsiglena
geodetic station
globoid indexing cam mechanism
growth motivation
Guiscriff
h-reg
heaven knows
homopetalous
homoscedastic arrays
hydraulic plucking
Hydroton
IAMAP
in mora
international case-law
invariant assignment optimization
Japanese crucian carp
Jizhong
juasani-do (chwasari-do)
kneebars
LL-37
Man-aung Kyun
mineral cycle
morando
murmelstein
npc
pace-egg
palatalisation
pancreatitic
Payne, L.
perjuration
phenoltetraiodophthalein sodium
phosphoglucosamine acetylase
photonovel
polymeric immunoglobulin receptor
product of uniform space
punching drilling
putritude
quantum orthogonal signal
quick return
Rashomon-style
recirculation heater
rotational spectra
sandblast
scoot about
selenium(vi) fluoride
sifters
simultaneous estimate
slip erosion
sludge conditioning
solution basin
star-map
stockard
syndrome with good prognosis
table of type
thermoelectric power system
track scale
transmission box
ultimate wilting point
ultraviolet ray microscope
use characteristics
vaguely remember
villainry
water entrained by steam
Zurich agreements