英语听力：自然百科 阿根廷牛仔
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。
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。