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。
学英语单词
a gambling hell
A.P.C.
about two hours
actual fault
alta
angle iron straightening
Bald Knob
birch-brooms
blckage
boracic gauze
cafte-au-lait spot
canalis cervicis uteri
carking
change someone's mind
close affair
cold buffer
collision length
compartment map
conical motion
corn duty in the sliding scale
countershaft gear cluster
cyclic stress
demagnetized erasure
distal root
Doojie
duchester
durability test
ejector
extensible conveying pipe
false deathcaps
fine art
functional writing
glyceroformol
glycuronate
Gothicky
group of transformation
grub felling
heavy-construction
Heron, L.
heteroscedastic variances
hydnocarpus hainanensis(merr.)sleum
i-driuen
Immunity of State-owned Vessels
inferior tarsus
irredentas
Karagash
Kokemäenjoki
kushida
leading-out terminal
leika
malignant testicular spongioma
master-carpenters
moienne
monisher
monkey adjustable wrench
motor specific impulse
Mulema
multi-chain condensation polymer
n-dinonyl ketone
nagda
Nalžovské Hory
ophichthus tsuchidae
outvoted
ozone depleting substances
palefaces
particle deflection
personal exemptions
PFPA
photo interpretation in agriculture
Phytohemagglutin
poythress
protected wireline distribution system
pseudostomatous canal
pseudostrophiole
psychogalvanometers
rejecting metaphysics
repulsive fix-point
rowwise
samothraces
scybalous feces
signal(l)ing path
single channel count
sinomendine
software programme
solvating
spontaneous origin
store empty
syncromesh
T-S plane
table-land culture
tenant right
theft-boot
third-time
time interval bell
toned-down
tree seed orchard
turducken
two-dimensional electron gas
Viola forrestiana
web service definition language (wsdl)
widest boiling point range