Sport at School　體育運(yùn)動(dòng)在校園

張恒選譯

Do you do sports at school？ In the UK everyone has to do some kind of sports at school until the age of 16. But its not just football or netball1 these days.

你在學(xué)校做運(yùn)動(dòng)嗎？在英國(guó)，每個(gè)人在16歲之前都必須在學(xué)校學(xué)會(huì)某種運(yùn)動(dòng)，但如今不僅是足球或無(wú)擋板籃球。

Sports in secondary schools

中學(xué)體育

All students in the UK have to do P.E. at school until they are 16. The sports you can do at school depend2 on your school. Each school offers3 different activities. The most popular sport at school is football， played by girls and boys. Students play other traditional4 team games such as rugby， field hockey， netball and rounders or do individual5 physical activities like running， swimming or gymnastics. Today， some schools offer more modern sports and physical activities such as dance， fitness， dodgeball or Ultimate Frisbee.

英國(guó)的所有學(xué)生必須在學(xué)校接受體育教育，直到年滿16歲。你在學(xué)?？梢詮氖碌倪\(yùn)動(dòng)取決于你的學(xué)校，因?yàn)槊總€(gè)學(xué)校會(huì)提供不同的活動(dòng)。在學(xué)校里，最受歡迎的運(yùn)動(dòng)是足球，男女皆宜。學(xué)生參加其他傳統(tǒng)的團(tuán)體比賽，例如橄欖球、曲棍球、無(wú)擋板籃球和圓場(chǎng)棒球比賽，或者進(jìn)行跑步、游泳，或體操之類的個(gè)人體育活動(dòng)。今天，有些學(xué)校提供更多現(xiàn)代運(yùn)動(dòng)和體育活動(dòng)，例如舞蹈、健身、躲避球或極限飛盤。

Traditional and new school sports

傳統(tǒng)和新學(xué)校運(yùn)動(dòng)

Here are some traditional and new team sports played at school that you might not know.

以下是一些你可能不知道的在學(xué)校中的傳統(tǒng)或新式的團(tuán)隊(duì)運(yùn)動(dòng)。

Netball

無(wú)擋板籃球

This competitive6 sport is played between two teams. There are seven players on each team. You score goals7 by throwing8 the ball into a net. It is like basketball， but you cant run with the ball. At UK schools girls play this sport.

這項(xiàng)競(jìng)技運(yùn)動(dòng)在兩支球隊(duì)之間進(jìn)行。每隊(duì)有7名球員，將球扔進(jìn)網(wǎng)中就可以得分，類似于籃球，但你不能帶球奔跑。在英國(guó)學(xué)校里，主要是女孩子參加這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)。

Rounders

圓場(chǎng)棒球

This team sport is like baseball or softball. One team hits the ball with a bat and runs around four posts9 or bases in the field. The other team throws the ball and tries to catch it or touch the post with the ball.

這種團(tuán)隊(duì)運(yùn)動(dòng)類似于棒球或壘球。一支球隊(duì)用球拍擊球，并在場(chǎng)地上繞著四個(gè)門柱或壘跑。另一支球隊(duì)則將球扔出去，試圖接住球或帶球觸碰門柱。

Dodgeball

躲避球

In this team sport， players throw the ball at the players on the other team and try to hit them with the ball. If the ball hits you， you are out！The balls are soft and many balls are used at the same time.

在這項(xiàng)團(tuán)隊(duì)運(yùn)動(dòng)中，球員將球扔向另一支球隊(duì)的球員，并試圖用球擊中他們。如果球擊中了你，你就出局了！球很軟，許多球同時(shí)使用。

Ultimate Frisbee

極限飛盤

A game played by two teams of seven players on a field. You score goals by throwing the Frisbee? （a plastic10 disc） into the “end zone”. Be careful！You cant run with the Frisbee！

一場(chǎng)比賽由七名球員組成的兩支球隊(duì)在操場(chǎng)上進(jìn)行。你可以通過(guò)將飛盤（塑料光盤）扔到“得分區(qū)”來(lái)得分，但請(qǐng)注意，你不能帶著飛盤一起跑！

How much sport do secondary students do？

中學(xué)生做多少運(yùn)動(dòng)？

On average， 14 to 16-year-olds do about 100 minutes of sport a week at school， but this reduces11 to 30 minutes a week for 17 and 18-year-olds.

平均而言，14歲至16歲的學(xué)生每周在學(xué)校做約100分鐘的運(yùn)動(dòng)，但17歲和18歲的學(xué)生則每周減少到30分鐘。

Teachers and educationalists12 tell us that young people should do sport. They need to know that it is important to be healthy and do sports well at school.

教師和教育家告訴我們，年輕人應(yīng)該多運(yùn)動(dòng)，并且需要知道保持健康和在學(xué)校里好好做運(yùn)動(dòng)的重要性。

（英語(yǔ)原文選自：learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org）