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    Not all people like to work but everyone likes to play. All over the world men and women and boys and girls enjoy sports. Since the days of long ago, adults and children have called their friends together to spend hours, even days, playing games.

    Sports help people to live happily. They help to keep people healthy and feeling good. When they are playing games, people move a lot. This is good for their health. Having fun with their friends makes them happy.

    Many people enjoy sports by watching others play. In small towns, crowds meet to watch the bicycle races or the soccer game. In the big cities, thousands buy tickets to see an ice-skating show or a baseball game.

    What games have you played? What are your favorite sports now? You probably play the games that people in your town or city play. Is the climate hot where you live? Then swimming is probably one of your sports. Boys and girls in Australia love to swim. There are wonderful beaches there and the weather is good for swimming.

    Or do you live iin a cold climate? Then you would like to ski. There are many skiers in Austria where there are big mountains and cold winters. Does it rain often where you live? The kite flying would not be one of you sports. It is one of the favorite sports of Thailand.

    Surfing is an important sport in Hawaii. The Pacific Ocean sends huge waves up on the beaches, waves that are just right for surfing. But you need to live near an ocean to ride the waves and enjoy surfing.

    People in Switzerland love to climb the wonderful mountains of their country. Mountain climbing and hiking are favorite sports there. But there can be no mountain climbing where there are no mountains.

    Sports change with the season. People often do not play the same games in winter as in summer. Sailing is fun in warm weather, but when it gets cold it's time to change to other sports. People talk about sports' seasons. Baseball is only played for a few months of the year. This is called "the baseball season".

 

Notes

 

keep people healthy and feeling good 使人们感觉健康良好

having fun with their friends 与他们的朋友们嬉戏

crowds meet 众多的人聚集在一起

kite flying 放风筝

Thailand 泰国

surfing 冲浪运动

Hawaii 夏威夷

waves that are just right for surfing 正好适合于冲浪运动的海浪

ride the waves 乘浪（前进）

Switzerland 瑞士

hiking 远足

change with the season 随着季节的变化而变化

sports' season 运动季节

break bricks with their bare hands 徒手劈断砖头

Karate 空手道（日本的一种徒手自卫武术）

Karatekas 空手道专家

believe it or not 信不信由你

the small bone in his wrist, opposite the thumb 位于他拇指对面，手腕上的小骨头

have this advantage over ordinary people 在这一点上胜过一般的人

a question of willpower 一个意志力的问题

 

Phrases

 

be good for

have fun with

be right for

change with

do sth. with bare hands

in the same way as

have advantage over

experiment on

 

 

Related Words and Expressions

 

swimming: do the breast stroke 蛙泳

             the butterfly stroke 蝶泳

             the dolphin stroke 海豚式

             the back stroke 仰泳

             the side stroke 侧泳

             the crawl 自由式

             tread water 踩水

             dive into the water 潜水

 

ballgames: overtime period 加时赛

           The score is 2 to 5. 比分2比5

           a tie 不分胜负

           The game ends in a tie. 比赛以平局结束

           referee 裁判员

 

football: field 场地

          goalkeeper 守门员

          the defence 后卫

          the left (centre, right) half 前卫

          the left (centre, right) forward 前锋

          the goal 球门

          kick a goal 踢进一球

          head the ball into goal 头球进门

 

basketball: the basketball court 篮球场

            backboard 篮板

            basket 篮筐

            score a goal 进球得分

 

volleyball: the service area 有效区域

            serve the ball 救球

            the back(net) player

 

gymnastics  体操

take part in a sports meet(meeting)

 

track events: 径赛

              100-metre dash 100米短跑

              400-metre race 400米赛跑

              the long distance race 长跑

              the relay race 接力赛

              change the baton 交接棒

              make a final dash 最后冲刺

 

field events: 田赛

              the long jump 跳远

              the jumping pit 沙坑

              the take-off board 起跳板

              the high jump 跳高

              the jumping bar 跳杆

              put the shot (shot put) 推铅球

              the putting circle 铅球投掷圈

              throw the discus (discus throwing) 掷铁饼

 

indoor sports: play Chinese chess 中国象棋

                    chess

                    weiqi (go)

                    bridge

 

a sportsfield (sportground)

sportsmanship 运动家精神

multifarious 多种多样的

sponsor 赞助人

the Asian Games 亚运会

the Olympic Games 奥运会

"a sick man of East Aisa" 东亚病夫

chalk up new records 达到新的纪录

equal a world record 达到世界纪录

popularize a sport among the people

enhance the people's physique 增强人民体格

be talented in

lose their usual form

be in good form

disarrayed teamwork

sweep all the title on offer ??!!!!

take on new dimensions 接受新的尺度

under the instruction of experienced coaches

win honors for the motherland

food rich in calorie

nourishing food

sth. weighing on one's mind

let sb. down

live up to the expectations of the spectators

make sth. accessible to

an athletic giant

 

 

Saying and SLogans

 

Don't become cocky with success nor downcast over defeat.

Promote physical culture and build up the people's health.

Friendship first, competition second.

 

 

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winner's stand

a gold (silver, bronze) medallist

in direct (inverse) ratio 正比

footprint

be bare-footed

be proud of

pull a long face

smile from ear to ear

with the corners of the mouth pulled down

be unsatisfied with

in singlet

wear shorts

a pair of shorts

hold...in one's arm

stare in surprise

stand stiff

big pointed nose

humour and satire