特別推薦：奧運英語專題

 

 

A: This is Word Wise on Language Tips, I’m Marc.

B: Hello, I’m Meggie.

A: Meggie, do you like Liu Xiang, the famous hurdler? I bet you love him.

B: Yes, sure, he’s the pride of China. I think everyone loves him.

A: Well, I heard he just celebrated his 25th birthday. And guess what he did on his birthday?

B: What did he do?

A: He and the Chinese track and field team swore together under the Chinese national flag and signed an anti-doping declaration.

B: Anti-doping? Is that the word for today?

A: Yes, it is. In order to achieve better achievements and earn a big sum of money, many athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, this action is called doping. Anti is a prefix, means against, so anti-doping means against doping.

B: 有些運動員為了取得好成績，就服用違禁藥品，這種行為就是doping。那么反興奮劑就是anti-doping了。

A: Yes. The International Olympic Committee said the anti-doping effort at the Beijing Summer Games would be more extensiveof any Olympics.

B: Good news. But what if some athletes successfully cheated in the games?

A: Once the truth is discovered, they will be stripped of their medals and punished. Marion Jones, for example, the winner of five medals at the 2000 Olympic Games admitted last year to doping before the Sydney Summer Olympics.  Then she accepted a two-year suspension.

B: 可見運動員一旦被發現服用興奮劑，就會受到嚴重的懲罰。號稱女飛人的瓊斯在2007年10月承認在悉尼奧運會前服用了興奮劑，因此被剝奪了獎牌，另外還被禁賽兩年。

A: It’s indeed a bad, bad thing to dope and cheat.

B: Well, many Chinese athletes have signed anti-doping declaration, promising they won’t dope at the Games.

A: I heard the Chinese General Administration of Sports said doping at the Olympic Games would result in a life-time ban for local athletes.

B: Yes. 他們會被終身禁賽。To have a clean team and a clean Games is China's dream.

Let us wish the Beijing Olympic Games a great success.

A: OK. That’s all for today. Join us next time.

B: For more programs, visit our website language.chinadaily.com.cn. Bye-bye.

A: 再見.

（Script by Annabel，英語點津 Helen 編輯）