英语听力精选进阶版 6184
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力精选进阶版
Stumps 1, Stones and Ashes 三根柱，石头和灰烬杯
When you hear the word ‘cricket’, what do you think of first?
A small, chirping 2 insect? Or a summer sport between players in white trousers and woollen jerseys 3 who stop for a 20-minute tea break in the afternoon?
The chances are, if you’re in England, India or Australia, you’ll be thinking of the latter, where the sport is watched, played and adored by millions.
English cricket fans are currently rejoicing in their national side’s victory over Australia in a fiercely-contested competition called The Ashes last week.
But in many other parts of the world the sport is virtually unknown. Many outsiders are put off by its complicated laws, unintelligible 4 terms (any idea what a googly or a grubber is?), and mind-boggling statistics.
With games that last for days or even weeks and scores that look more like share prices than sports results, how do we begin to understand this game?
Well in its most basic form cricket is a bat and ball game, not unlike baseball in that it involves two teams of players: one batting and the other bowling 5 and fielding. Like football, both teams have 11 players.
When bowling, the aim is to hit the wicket, while the batsman tries to defend it and hit the ball far away to win ‘runs’. If the bowler 6 hits the wicket then the batsman is ‘out’, and the next one from the 11 in the batting team takes his place.
When they are ‘all out’ the batting side’s total runs are added up and the teams swap 7 sides until the second side is also ‘all out’. Whoever has the most runs at the end wins.
Simple? Well, that’s just a taster. If you’re interested there’s a whole world of cricket out there, with its leg-before-wickets, silly mid-ons and doosras.
And if learning the finer points of cricket sounds like hungry work, you can always take comfort from the fact it’s the only sport where lunch and tea are formally included in the order of play.
GLOSSARY 词汇表
chirping insect 喳喳叫的小虫子（蟋蟀）
woollen jerseys 毛衣
tea break 午茶休息
the chances are 十有八九
latter 后者
rejoicing 欢庆
fiercely-contested 激烈竞赛的
virtually unknown 几乎没人知道的
put off 扫兴
unintelligible 难懂的/令人困扰的
mind-boggling statistics 令人惊讶不解的数字
share prices 股价
bowling 投球
fielding 接球
wicket 三柱门
runs 防止攻方得分
added up 累计
taster 入门小知识
finer points 细节
take comfort 令人欣慰
- Rocks and stumps supplied the place of chairs at the picnic. 野餐时石头和树桩都充当了椅子。
- If you don't stir your stumps, Tom, you'll be late for school again. 汤姆，如果你不快走，上学又要迟到了。
- The birds,chirping relentlessly,woke us up at daybreak. 破晓时鸟儿不断吱吱地叫，把我们吵醒了。
- The birds are chirping merrily. 鸟儿在欢快地鸣叫着。
- The maximum quantity of cotton jerseys this year is about DM25,000. 平方米的羊毛地毯超过了以往的订货。 来自口语例句
- The NBA is mulling the prospect of stitching advertising logos onto jerseys. 大意：NBA官方正在酝酿一个大煞风景的计划——把广告标志绣上球服！ 来自互联网
- If a computer is given unintelligible data, it returns unintelligible results.如果计算机得到的是难以理解的数据，它给出的也将是难以理解的结果。
- The terms were unintelligible to ordinary folk.这些术语一般人是不懂的。
- Bowling is a popular sport with young and old.保龄球是老少都爱的运动。
- Which sport do you 1ike most,golf or bowling?你最喜欢什么运动，高尔夫还是保龄球？
- The bowler judged it well,timing the ball to perfection.投球手判断准确，对球速的掌握恰到好处。
- The captain decided to take Snow off and try a slower bowler.队长决定把斯诺撤下，换一个动作慢一点的投球手试一试。