时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was a most exciting event. It was full of breath-taking surprises like fireworks, and the opening welcome by 2008 Chinese drummers. Then there were ‘fairies’ floating on wires, a giant spinning globe, children in costumes representing 56 Chinese ethnicities and moving blocks representing Chinese writing. The way the blocks moved looked like they were operated by machines. However, at the end of this part, out popped 2,000 Chinese performers.

The ceremony showed some of Chinese history and inventions – the invention of fireworks, paper and writing, and the beautiful costumes made from silk.

The grand final was the lighting 1 of the Olympic flame. A former Olympic gymnast, Li Ning, held on by two wires, was lifted to the top of the stadium, where he seemed to run around the top while carrying the torch.

About 22,000 people took part in the ceremony, which was directed by the famous film director, Zhang Yimou. 15,000 costumes were used and 43,000 fireworks were lit. There were 90,000 spectators 2 and 80 invited heads of states from many countries including the American President Bush.

After the performances the athletes marched into the stadium, beginning with the host of the last Olympics, Greece, and ending with the host of the 2008 Olympics, China. Over 10,000 athletes from 204 countries will compete in the Games but not all of them marched, especially those who were competing the next day. New Zealand was proud to have the rower, Mahe Drysdale, to carry the flag.

It was surprising to realise that China uses a different alphabet system to ours. The Australian team, which is usually near the beginning of the alphabet, came into the stadium second to last and New Zealand was 189th.

A Chinese athlete, representing all the athletes, read the Olympic oath 3:

“In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding 4 by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship 5, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams”.



n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
n.观众,旁观者( spectator的名词复数 )
  • The spectators were wilting visibly in the hot sun. 看得出观众在炎热的阳光下快支撑不住了。
  • The policemen asked the spectators to stand well back. 警察要求旁观者靠后站。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.誓言,誓约,咒骂,诅咒语
  • They swore an oath to carry out their duties faithfully.他们宣誓忠实履行自己的职责。
  • They swore an oath of loyalty to the country.他们宣誓要报效祖国。
adj.永久的,持久的,不变的
  • He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永远热爱英国的乡村。
  • He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他对这门手艺有着真挚持久的热爱。
n.体育道德
  • We identify sportsmanship with good character. 我们认为体育道德与良好品质是一致的。
  • He told Shane that they were going to learn about good sportsmanship. 他告诉夏恩他们要来学学何谓良好的运动家精神。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号
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active control tech nology
automation of cargo handling
axis of figure
bainitic transformation
bibliotherapist
blind bombing zone
Bromus magnus
bullock hearts
butt-jointed shell ring
Bükkzsérc
cadence detection
Callicarpa kochiana
chable
chondrogen
columnwise
combined arms team
computer network
contrary intention
corpora liberum pericardii
crosslevel
dar pahn
diphasic titration
dislocation mucleation
equidecomposability
expendable drone
external selection
extreme ultraviolet
fictious person
flat called
Francisco Jose de Goya
Gafac surfactant
give dosage form
ground robin
Herford
hey
isolation between inputs
Jerseytown
jimmying
Kadavu Island
kidney essence
king matker
legal discipline
locator variable
madioxytheria formosana
menformon
metal fuelled
mucolic acids
non-convex quadratic programming
nondelivered
North-West Frontier Province
ordnance engineering
os pharyngeum inferius
Osmoxylon
outlay for liquidation
pain receptor
panting girder
Peacekeeper missile
pick-up coil
pill maker
ply strain
plywood-covered
Porto Grande
pottled
predicting relation
Proxylide
Quipar, R.
rafter
rashie
registro
reticulated vein
shoaib
single row ball bearing with ring seal
six panel door
SL-SD
slip of pen
smooth approach
spectral source density
spray decoration
stalking horses
starter nozzle
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
strepsigonia diluta takamukui
subcutaenous calcareous granuloma
surface of translation
tension-active element
Teza
threa
thump-thump
track balance
transient radiation damage
true fibre
V die
venin-antivenin
ventilating tube
waveshape
within-participants design
woman on the beach
Yedineniya, Ostrov
yellowfins
ymesurid
Zeddam