时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语沙龙2004全年合辑上


英语课

Modern Olympic Games Review


1980 Olympics, Moscow


 


Dates: Jul.19 Aug.3 Sports: 21


Events: 203


Participants: 5,179 (4,064 men; 1,115 women; 80 countries)


Final Torchbearer: Sergey Belov


 


Four years after 32 nations walked out of the Montreal Games, twice that many chose to stay away1 from Moscow -- many in support of an American-led boycott 12 to protest the December 1979 Soviet 2 invasion of Afghanistan.


  


Unable to persuade the IOC to cancel or move the Summer Games, U.S. President Jimmy Carter pressured the USOC to officially withdraw in April. Many governments, like West Germany and Japan, followed suit3 and withheld4 their athletes. But others, like Britain and France, while supporting the boycott, allowed their Olympic committees to participate if they wished. The result was that these countries made the trip to Moscow although many of them refused to march at the opening ceremony.


  


The first Games to be held in a Communist country opened in July with 80 nations competing and were dominated by the USSR and East Germany. They were also plagued by charges5 of rigged6 judging and poor sportsmanship by Moscow fans who booed7 the Poles and East Germans unmercifully8.


  


While Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin became the first athlete to win eight medals in one year, the belle 39 of Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania, returned to win two more gold medals and Cuban heavyweight10 Teofilo Stevenson became the first boxer 4 to win three golds in the same weight division.


 


注释


1.stay away 不出席


2.boycott [5bCikEt] n.联合抵制拒绝参加


3.follow suit 学样跟着做照着做


4.withhold 5 [wiT5hEuld]p. t.p. p withheldvt. 使停止阻挡


5.charge [tFB:dV] n. 指控指责


6.rigged [rigd] a.用舞弊手段操纵的被垄断的


7.boo [bu:] vt. 某人);……喝倒彩


8.unmercifully [Qn5mE:sifuli] ad. 冷酷无情地过分地


9.belle [bel] n. 美女最美的美人


10.heavyweight [5hevIweit] n.体重175磅以上的最重量级拳击手


 


现代奥运回顾


1980年莫斯科奥运会


 


时间:719日~83


运动种类:21


竞赛项目:203


参赛者:5179(其中4064名男选手,1115名女选手,来自80个国家)


末棒执炬者:谢尔盖别洛夫


 


32个国家退出了当年的蒙特利尔奥运会,而4年后拒绝参加莫斯科奥运会的国家数却翻了一番,其中多数是出于响应美国领导的联合抵制行动,以抗议苏联197912月对阿富汗的侵略。


 


在未能说服国际奥委会取消该届夏季奥运会或改变举办国之后,美国总统吉米卡特向美国奥委会施加压力,使其在4月份正式退出奥运会。很多国家,如西德和日本也紧跟其后纷纷退出。有些国家,如英国和法国,虽然也支持抵制行动,但是仍然允许其奥委会自行定夺是否参赛。结果这些国家的运动员依然来到了莫斯科参赛,虽然它们中的很多拒绝参加开幕式。


 


第一次在一个共产党国家举办的本届奥运会于7月拉开帷幕,共有80个国家参赛。本届奥运会被苏联和东德所垄断,同时也深受裁判舞弊和莫斯科观众糟糕的体育精神的困扰。后者过分地向波兰和东德运动员喝倒彩。


 


苏联体操运动员亚历山大迪亚廷成为一年中独得8枚奖牌的第一人。蒙特利尔奥运会上一举成名的美女、罗马尼亚运动员纳迪娅科马内奇卷土重来,再夺两枚金牌。古巴最重量级拳击运动员特奥菲洛史蒂文森成为同一重量级中获得3枚金牌的第一人。


 


 




n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与
  • We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
  • The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.靓女
  • She was the belle of her Sunday School class.在主日学校她是她们班的班花。
  • She was the belle of the ball.她是那个舞会中的美女。
n.制箱者,拳击手
  • The boxer gave his opponent a punch on the nose.这个拳击手朝他对手的鼻子上猛击一拳。
  • He moved lightly on his toes like a boxer.他像拳击手一样踮着脚轻盈移动。
v.拒绝,不给;使停止,阻挡
  • It was unscrupulous of their lawyer to withhold evidence.他们的律师隐瞒证据是不道德的。
  • I couldn't withhold giving some loose to my indignation.我忍不住要发泄一点我的愤怒。
学英语单词
acetylphosphoric acid
approbated
arteriola efferens
assembler loader package
babusar pass
basivolsella
beef stroganoffs
biosphere reserve
black teals
blandished
board bridge
breanna
calcium pyrophosphate
chemical insecticide
clear panel key
colouring book
computer forensics
cool-summer damage due to impotency
Cuproartinite
customs compound
customs supervision
decaudates
direct current source
documents-against-payment bill
DTRTT
electric resistance wire
enthalpy-entropy chart
excess mean portfolio return
firmware support
food-purchasing
four-address code
friction pressure
ghiaour
greys
Hawkins Point
hedonic price method
high-tempreature strain gauge
hovde
hyperpipecolatemia
intraploidy
job-lot production
kellwood
Keota
Koh Sla, Stung
lightly deformed crystal
lindeberg's condition
liquefaction temperature
Lloyd's anchors and chains proved
Loxwood
lymphonoduli aggregati
Madipelesa
magnaliums
mark sth up
megawatt (mw)
micromechanically
momentum cutoff
muhs
myristicic acid
nonutilized
obituarial
OGRL
Omlet
on-line cipher
orbiculately
ortho-nitraniline
Os Draconis
philosoph
piratesses
possessive pronoun
pritchie
pseudoprognathism
pulpitless
Q clearance
R. M. S.
rauca
reattend
remote sensing for atmospheric pollution
residual current operated protective device
Rhododendron mainlingense
sassen
sea language
see ... do
self-redemptions
simple HISAM data base
Skave
steam water interface
steering gear tube cam
stratum compactum of integument
stress bolt
suicide bombing
synchronization
tatouay
Thai Ridgebacks
thorotrast
turite
type of machine
varnish-treated tape
vigna angulariss
wage tax
wheeler and dealer
worm-gears