单词 | 经营牧场 |
释义 | 〔Odessa〕A city of western Texas south-southwest of Lubbock. It was a small ranching town until the discovery of oil in the area. Population, 89,699.敖德萨:美国得克萨斯西部城市,位于拉伯克西南偏南。在该在区发现石油之前它原是一个经营牧场为主的小镇。人口89,699〔ranch〕To manage or work on a ranch.经营牧场,在牧场工作〔rancher〕One that owns or manages a ranch.大牧场主:拥有或经营牧场的人〔vaquero〕Used chiefly in southwest and central Texas to mean a ranch hand or cowboy,the wordvaquero is a direct loan from Spanish; that is, it is spelled and pronounced, even by English speakers, much as it would be in Spanish.In California, however, the same word was Anglicized tobuckaroo. Craig M. Carver, author ofAmerican Regional Dialects, points out that the two words also reflect cultural differences between cattlemen in Texas and California.The Texas vaquero was typically a bachelor who hired on with different outfits,while the California buckaroo usually stayed on the same ranch where he was born or had grown up and raised his own family there.主要用于得克萨斯西南部和中部,指经营牧场的人或牧童,vaquero 这个词是直接从西班牙语引借过来的; 就是说,即使是说英语的人,拼写和发音这个词也按照西班牙语的方式。然而在加利福尼亚同一个单词被英化成buckaroo。 克雷格·M·卡弗尔,美国区域性方言 的作者, 指出这两个词反应出得克萨斯和加利福尼亚两地牧民之间文化上的差异。得克萨斯的牧童特指在不同牧场上雇佣的单身汉,但是加利福尼亚的牧人通常指呆在他出生或长大并建立自己家园的同一牧场上 |
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