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1、【精品文档】如有侵权,请联系网站删除,仅供学习与交流星火英语-15篇文章贯通四级词汇文本15theAncientOlympics.精品文档.古代奥运会the Ancient OlympicsWith great anticipation, China is busily preparing for the 2008Summer Olympic Games. Beijing will be added to a long list of the great cities that have invited the world to honor the worlds greatest athlet
2、es in the modern ear of the Olympic Games. China will also become part of an important, rich heritage that goes back more than 2000 years.中国正满怀期望,积极为2008年夏季奥运会做准备。北京将成为有幸举办奥运会的伟大城市之一,届时她将邀请全世界来嘉奖世界上最伟大的运动员。中国也将成为这个有2000多年历史,重要而丰富的传统的一部分。The origins of the ancient Olympic Games tend to be submerged i
3、n sea of Greek myths. One popular myth suggests that Pelops, a prince from Lydia, in Asia Minor (nowadays Turkey), won the hand of a princess by unfairly defeating a competing suitor in a chariot race. The loser was to be condemned to beheading. The prince rigged his opponents chariot to crash durin
4、g the race. Later, the chariot did crash, killing the driver. The princess became Pelops bride, and he instituted the Olympic Games to celebrate his victory. However, others claimed that the first Olympic event was a funeral festival to honor his dead competitor.古代奥运会的起源很容易就被淹没在浩瀚的希腊神话中。一个广为流传的神话说,珀
5、罗普斯,小亚细亚(现在的土耳其)的吕底亚的一个王子,在一次战车比赛中用欺骗手段击败了求婚对手,赢得了一位公主的婚约。当时失败者会被判斩首,而对手的战车被王子做了手脚使其在比赛中被撞毁。后来,车毁人亡。那位公主成了珀罗普斯的新娘,他创立了奥林匹克运动会庆祝他的胜利。不过,另外一些人则声称第一次奥运会是为纪念他死去的对手而举行的葬礼。Another myth involved Hercules, the mythical strong man. Hercules was the son of Zeus, the Greek god, and one of the gods mistresses.
6、Hera, Zeus wife, and also his sister, was very upset. She attempted in many ways, to kill Hercules as a baby. Hercules survived. Later, after he had married, Hera successfully put a spell on him, demanding that he kill his wife. Because he was the son of the god, Zeus, Hercules was destined to becom
7、e a god himself. In order to accomplish this, Hercules had to be cleansed of his wifes murder. To do this, he was directed to perform twelve difficult labors. If he successfully completed these, he would become an immortal god, like his father.另一个神话是有关赫尔克里斯的,一个神话中的大力士。他是希腊主神宙斯和他的一个情妇的儿子。赫拉,宙斯的妻子,也是他
8、的姐姐,非常气愤。在赫尔克里斯还是个婴儿时,赫拉就使用了很多方法要杀死他。但赫尔克里斯幸存下来。后来,在他结婚后,赫拉成功地对他施以诅咒,让他杀死他的妻子。因为他是宙斯的儿子,赫尔克里斯自己注定也会成为一个神。为了做到这一点,他必须洗清他谋杀妻子的罪名。为此,他被要求要完成十二件艰巨的大事。如果他成功地完成了这些任务,他就会像他父亲一样,成为不朽的神。One of the majestic labors was to clean the stables of the King of Elis, in the impossibly brief period of one day. The kin
9、g had huge stables with very large herds of cattle. Hercules asked the king to give him one tenth of his cattle, if he completed the task in one day. The king, perhaps humoring Hercules, or perhaps believing that this task couldnt possibly be done in one day, agreed. In one day, Hercules diverted tw
10、o rivers through the barns, cleaning them, but he did not receive the cattle that were promised in the deal. Hercules waged a successful war on the King, sacking Elis. He introduced the Olympic Games to celebrate this victory and to honor his father, Zeus, who lived on nearby Mount Olympus. The myth
11、 also suggests that Hercules measured out the stade, a footrace event of about 200 meters (or the length of the stadium).其中一项任务是,在短短的一天之内清洁好艾丽斯国王的马厩,这几乎是不可能的事。艾丽斯国王的马群非常大,所以他有一个巨大的马厩。赫尔克里斯提出,如果他在一天之内完成了任务,国王就给他十分之一的马群。也许是觉得赫尔克里斯有点可笑,认为他根本不可能在一天内完成任务,国王就答应了。在这一天里,赫尔克里斯把两条小河引过来,将马厩冲洗干净,但没有得到承诺的马群。赫尔克里
12、斯于是发动了一场战争,洗劫了艾丽斯。他举行了奥林匹克运动会来庆祝这次胜利和表示对父亲宙斯的敬仰。他的父亲宙斯就住在附近的奥林匹斯山上。这个神话还说,赫尔克里斯测量了运动场的长度,一个两百米长的跑道(或一个露天运动场的长度)。As today, athletes in the ancient world were popular and had tremendous impact on the society of their day. The goal of the well-disciplined, physically trim athletes was to be the best. T
13、he champion athlete assumed a position of honor and privilege in Greek society. The status of a triumphant athlete also enhanced the reputation of his home city-state. Every young Greek boy who pursued the dream of being an Olympic champion some day envied the athletes. An important part of a Greek
14、school boys curriculum was vigorous physical training in gymnasium.像今天一样,古代的运动员很受欢迎,对他们那个时代的社会也有很大的影响。训练有素、身材匀称的运动员的目标是成为最好的运动员。冠军运动员会得到荣誉,在古希腊拥有特权。获胜运动员的地位也会增强自己家乡城市的名望。每一个希腊小伙子都羡慕那些运动员,梦想有一天自己成为奥林匹克冠军。古希腊学校里男孩子的课程里很重要的一部分就是在体育馆内上体育课。The ancient Olympic Games, which began in 776 BC, lasted for over
15、 1100 years. In 394 AD, the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius abolished the games, as pagan festivals. At that time the Roman Empire was in decline. The modern Olympics have been around for only a little over 100 years, sine 1896. The Olympics of 776BC was the first, for which there is a written re
16、cord, but it is believed that these events existed before this. There is evidence to show that athletic contests took place in Ancient Egypt and in the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.古代奥运会始于公元前776年,延续了1100多年。公元394年,基督教罗马皇帝狄奥多西将其视为异教徒的节日予以废除。那时的罗马帝国正在衰落。现代奥林匹克运动会从1896年开始,才100多年。公元
17、前776年的奥运会是有文字记录的第一届,但人们相信在此之前这项运动就已经存在了。有证据表明在古埃及和克利特岛上的古弥诺斯文化中就举行过体育比赛。A plain called Olympia, in the small city-state of Elis was the site of the original Greek games. At the beginning of every four years, a period called an Olympiad, a major religious festival with athletic competition, took plac
18、e at Olympia. In ancient Greece, the early Olympics did not rotate from city to city, but were permanently hosted at Olympia, the place from which the name Olympics originated. If wars were taking place at the time, as there usually were, a truce would be made during the military conflicts, soldiers
19、 would drop their swords and shields and accompany their opponents on a safe passage to Olympia, to enthusiastically participate in the games. After the games, the athletes would return to the battlefields with their companions, pick up their weapons and resume military engagements with their enemie
20、s, often fighting to the death, the athletic competitors whom they confronted only a few days or weeks before.在小城邦艾丽斯的奥林匹亚平原,就是古代希腊运动会的场地。每4年的年初,这个期间叫做“四年周期”,伴随体育比赛,要在奥林匹亚举行盛大的宗教节日。在古希腊,早期奥运会不是一个个城市轮流,而总是在奥林匹亚举行,“奥运会”因此得名。到时如果发生战争(这是常有的事),对抗的军队之间就会休战,战士们丢下他们的剑和盾牌,与他们的对手一起,安全地来到奥林匹亚,参加狂热的运动会。运动会后,运动员
21、们将与他们的同伴一起重返战场,拿起武器,与他们的敌人,也就是仅仅几天或几个星期前相遇的体育竞赛对手,继续交战,常常会战斗到死。In the beginning, only free Greek-speaking male athletes could participate in the games, women, slaves, and foreigners were banned from competition. Women were even barred as spectators, not for sexual reasons, but for from 720 BC the ma
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