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 In the countryside of Argentina, cowboy life has scarcely changed over the past three centuries. The gaucho1 is a hero here, a legendary2 figure larger than life. But these are the real gauchos3, 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 solitude4 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 shack5 out here than in a palace in the city. There's too much I'd miss: the sound of hoofbeats, the birds of dawn, sipping6 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 herds7 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, brutally8 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.

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1 gaucho PsYzHw     
n. 牧人
参考例句：
  • 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 u1Vxg     
adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）
参考例句：
  • 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。
3 gauchos e429f65f96656ba1fcc4e1776ee80ef9     
n.南美牧人( gaucho的名词复数 )
参考例句：
4 solitude xF9yw     
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
参考例句：
  • 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 aE3zq     
adj.简陋的小屋，窝棚
参考例句：
  • 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 e7d80fb5edc3b51045def1311858d0ae     
v.小口喝，呷，抿( sip的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • 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。
7 herds 0a162615f6eafc3312659a54a8cdac0f     
兽群( herd的名词复数 )； 牧群； 人群； 群众
参考例句：
  • Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。
  • There we saw herds of cows grazing on the pasture. 我们在那里看到一群群的牛在草地上吃草。
8 brutally jSRya     
adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地
参考例句：
  • The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
  • A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

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