练习英语口语,奥运会比赛项目英文介绍Wrestling.doc

登陆网站 参加免费试学练习英语口语，奥运会比赛项目英文介绍WrestlingIf the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is theprologue. When the ancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient game. Widely recognised as the worlds oldest competitive sport, wrestling appeared in a series of Egyptian wall paintings as many as 5000 years ago. When the Games began in 776 BC, more than twomillenniumslater, it included wrestling, and, in the years that followed, wrestling featured as the main event.The sport would return in a similar role when the Olympic Games returned after a 1500-year absence in 1896. Organisers, seeking direct links to ancient times, found a natural in the sport that had enjoyed popularity across much of the ancient world, from Greece, Assyria and Babylon to India, China and Japan. TheyresurrectedGreco-Roman wrestling, a style they believed to be an exact carryover from the Greek and Roman wrestlers of old.In Greco-Roman wrestling, the wrestlers used only their arms and upper bodies to attack. They could hold only those same parts of their opponents. It worked nicely from a historical perspective, but another breezier style was sweeping across Great Britain and the United States by then. Known as catch as catch can, it had become standard fare - and popular professional entertainment - at fairs and festivals in both countries.In 1904, the Olympic Games added the second wrestling event and called it freestyle. Now, wrestlers could use their legs for pushing, lifting andtripping, and they could hold opponents above or below the waist.Help:prologue n. 序言，序幕，开端millennium n. 一千年，太平盛世resurrect vt. 使复活；复兴trip vi. 摔倒；绊倒相关词汇：GreekRoman wrestling 古典式摔跤wrestler 摔跤运动员standing wrestling 站立摔ontheground wrestling 跪撑摔bridge 角力桥free style wrestling 自由式摔跤bar arm with grapevine 锁臂缠腿double leg lock 抱单腿拦腿摔objective n.目标oblige vt.迫使oblige vt.迫使obscure a.卑微的，无名的obscurity n.默默无闻observant a.观察力锐敏的observe vt.注意到obstacle n.障碍obstinately ad.固执地obtain vt.得到occasion vt.引起occupy vi.占occupy vt.使忙碌occurrence n.(偶发)事件octopus n.章鱼odd a.奇怪的oddly ad.奇怪地odds n.困难，差额official n.官员officious a.好管闲事的old folk n.老乡，家乡人old-fashioned a.老式的ominously ad.不吉祥地operate vi.运转operation n.行动;操作operation n.工作opportunity n.机会opposite n.相反物orbit n.轨道orbit vi.沿轨道运行orderly a.有条不紊的originally ad.原来outer space n.外层空间outlandish a.稀奇古怪的outrageous a.令人不能容忍的outskirt n.(常用复数)郊区overall n.工作服overbalance vi.失去平衡overflow vt.溢出overland a.陆上的o