Section One

Vocabulary

1. keep people healthy and feeling good 使人们感觉健康良好
2. having fun with their friends 与朋友们嬉戏
3. crowds meet 众多的人聚集在一起
4. kite flying 放风筝
5. surfing 冲浪
6. waves that are just right for surfing 适合冲浪运动的海浪
7. ride the waves 乘浪前进
8. hiking 远足
9. change with the season 随季节的变化而变化
10. sports' season 运动季节
11. bare hands 徒手
12. Karate 空手道
13. Karatekas 空手道专家
14. believe it or not 信不信由你
15. the small bone in his wrist, opposite the thumb 位于拇指对面、手腕上的小骨头
16. have this advantage over ordinary people 在这一点上胜过一般的人
17. a question of willpower 意志力的问题

Related Words and Expressions

swimming: do the breast stroke 蛙泳
the butterfly stroke 蝶泳
the dolphin stroke
the back stroke
the side stroke
the crawl
tread water 踩水
dive into the water
ballgames: overtime period 加时赛
the score is 2 to 5
a tie 平局
the game ends is a tie
referee 裁判
football:field
goalkeeper 守门员
the defense
the left/center, right half
the left/center, right forward
the goal
kick a goal
head the ball into goal
basketball: the basketball court
backboard 篮板
basket
score a goal
volleyball: the service area
serve the ball 发球
the back/net player
gymnastics
take part in a sports meeting
track events: 100-metre dash
400-metre race
the long distance race
the relay race 接力赛
change the baton 交棒
make a final dash
field events: the long jump
the jumping pit 沙坑
the take-off board
the high jump
the jumping bar
put the shot/shot put 投掷铅球
the putting circle
throw the discus/discus throwing 掷铁饼
indoor sports: play Chinese chess 象棋
chess
weiqi/go 围棋
bridge 桥牌
a sportsfield/sportsground
sportsmanship
multifarious 各种各样的
sponsor 主办者
the Asian Games
the Olympic Games
a sick man of East Asia
chalk up new records 得到
equal a world record
popularize a sport among the people
enhance the people's physique 体格
be talented in
lose their usual form
be in good form
disarrayed teamwork 组织混乱
sweep all the titles on offer
take on new dimensions
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 expectation of the spectators
make sth. accessible to
an athletic giant