篮球运动在中国 双语

Basketball in China

Yao Ming has popularized basketball and the National Basketball Association has an inspired public relations effort to expand the sport but soccer has achieved greater public relations penetration with a greater TV spectatorship. As basketball was only invented in 1898 it is a questionable assertion that China "is the third oldest country that plays basketball after USA and Canada." Since the arrival of Houston Rockets superstar Yao Ming in the NBA in 2002, the game has grown considerably in the world's most populated country. Some experts estimate as many as 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population now play basketball. The first professional team in China was a team that started in Shenyang and was sponsored by the Anshan Steel Company. The Chinese Basketball Association was established in 1995 and in 2004 it expanded to 12 teams.
    CBA, and very much like the European systems, Chinese basketball uses the system of promotion and relegation for its leagues.

Vocabulary: popularize vt. 使普及
                     penetration n. 浸透；目标市场的占有份额
                     questionable adj. 值得怀疑的
                     assertion n. 断言，主张

参考译文：
      姚明使得篮球在中国普及，NBA也已经对篮球运动的普及做了很大的努力。但是足球运动已经成功的和电视联姻，占有了很多的观众群体。篮球只是被发明于1898年，“中国是世界上继美国和加拿大后第三个开始篮球运功的国家”这个论断是值得怀疑的。自从姚明于2002年进入NBA的休斯顿火箭队以来，篮球就成为中国最受欢迎的运动。一些专家评价说，中国13亿的人口中现在有三千万人都打篮球。中国第一支职业队伍是沈阳队，由鞍山钢铁公司赞助。1995年中国篮协成立，2004年职业队扩充到12支。
     CBA，非常像欧洲的篮球体系，采用了队伍的升降级体系。

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