| 释义 |
gaucho|ˈgaʊtʃəʊ, ˈgɔːtʃəʊ|
Also incorrectly Guacho.
[Sp.; prob. from some native S. American lang.]
(See quot. 1871.)
1824B. Hall Jrnl. Chili & Peru (1825) I. iv. 151 Two mounted horsemen, Guassos as they are called in Chili, or Guachos in Peru. 1838Haliburton Clockm. Ser. ii. xxii. (1848) 182 A party of them Guachos..galloped up to him..and made him prisoner. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxiii, The savage coiled the lasso with the dexterity of a gaucho. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 201 The Guachos are able to entangle them [birds] with the bolas. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 41 The Gauchos of the South American Pampas, a mixed European and Indian race of equestrian herdsmen. |