美国西部牛仔的真实面貌及其深远影响

The True Color of West Cowboy and Its Far-reaching Influence

人们对牛仔的认识主要源自于西部影片,可是西部影片并没有反映牛仔的真实面貌。西部牛仔是美国历史上特定时期一个特殊的劳工阶层,他们为美国经济的发展做出了重大的贡献,由他们衍生而来的牛仔文化内涵丰富,影响深远。文章还原了牛仔的真实面貌,重点剖析了牛仔对西部影片、英语语言、牛仔服饰及美国精神四个方面产生的深远影响。

Most people get to know cowboys from American west films,which,in fact,don＇t depict the true colors of them.Indeed,west cowboys are a special labor force in American history that made great contribution to American economic development.They exert great impacts on the shaping of the rich and profound cowboy culture with far-reaching connotation influences.This paper tries to restore the real looks of cowboys and explores their extensive effects in detail from such aspects as west films,English language,cowboy dressing and American spirits.It is hoped that the study will arouse more and more people＇s interest in probing the implication of cowboy culture.