无与伦比的北京奥运会_英文_

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Abhinav Bindra of India won that nation’s first gold medal, in shooting. His medal marked India’s first gold since 1980.
Kenya’s Samy Wanjiru won the marathon Sunday morn- ing — the first gold in the marathon for Kenya, with a proud tradition of winning gold in other distance events dating to Kip Keino35 and the 1968 Mexico City Games.
“What is clear is that Beijing has had a huge positive impact on the Olympics,” said Michael Knight, the former Olympics minister in Australia who oversaw21 the wildly22 successful
The focus on such politically charged26 controversies remained strong until the Aug. 8 cere- mony. And then dimmed27 almost immediately, the spotlight28 switching29 to sports — the crowds at the pool, at the track and elsewhere bearing witness to history in the making30.
15. established on several... are sure to be measured 确立了好几项前沿基准, 以后的奥运会肯定会 以这些基准来衡量。
16. venue ['venju"] ( 体育比赛) 场馆。 17. architectural marvel ['m#"v!l] 建筑奇迹。 18. concern [k!n's!"n] 担忧, 担心。 19. volunteers could not have been more friendly
The palette6 of colors on the field, the rousing7 lights around and above — all of that in turn served as mere prelude8 to the moment when the Olympic cauldron9 was extinguished10, the stadi- um suddenly so hushed the hiss of the gas feeding the huge flame above the Bird’s Nest rim clearly audible.11
* 本题目是引语, 出自国际奥委会主席雅克·罗格在第 2 9 届奥运会闭幕式上对北京奥运会的评价。
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It was clear that from the outset the very first drumbeats at the opening ceremony on Aug. 8 served notice of China’s arrival among the front ranks of the nations of the world, and this sta- tion the Chinese athletes emphatically underscored over the next two weeks, their performance topping the gold-medal chart, with 51.14
And then it12 was gone. These Games, perhaps the most memorable Summer Olympics since the Games were reborn in Athens in 1896, were over. “These were truly exceptional Games! ”International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge declared from the center of the stadium. Unlike his predecessor13, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain, Rogge does not describe one Games or another as “best ever”.
14. 本 句 意 为 : 显 然 , 8 月 8 日 开 幕 式 上 第 一 阵 鼓 声就正式宣告了中国跻身于世界强国之列, 这 一地位在随后两周里不容置疑地得到加强, 中 国 运 动 员 以 51 枚 金 牌 的 成 绩 雄 踞 榜 首 。 from the outset 从一开始; serve notice 正式通 知; station 地位, 身份; emphatically [im'f&tik!li] 不容置疑地; underscore 加强, 强调。
Sydney Games in 2000. “In the next few years,”Knight said, “it will become clearer just how much impact the Olympics has had on China.”
From the moment the IOC awarded the Games to Beijing in 2001, these Games attracted controversy23 like no other, activists24 using the onset25 of the Games to call attention to the politi- cal situation in Tibet, the conflict in Darfur — and a range of other issues in China.
At the futuristic31 Water Cube32, Michael Phelps won eight gold medals, topping Mark Spitz’s record of seven at one Olympics, from Munich in 1972.
On the track, Usain Bolt of Jamaica33 ran three races, won all three and set three world records. In running 9.69 seconds to win the 100m, Bolt became the first man in the recorded history to run the distance at that speed without a significant tailwind34.
9. cauldron 大炉, 火炉。 10. extinguish [iks'ti#$wi&] 使熄灭。 11. the stadium suddenly...rim clearly audible
体育场异常寂静, 鸟巢边缘上巨型火炬 供 气 的 嘶 嘶 声 都 能 清 楚 听 见 。 这 里 so hushed 后面省略了连词 that; rim 后面省 略了系动词 was。hush ( 使) 安静下来。 12. it 此处指奥运圣火。 13. predecessor ['pri%dises"] 前任。
Tr uly Exceptional
T o the roar of pyrotechnics1 over the Bird’s Nest, the symbol of a new China, and a simultaneously2 timed circle of yet more fireworks over Tianmen Square in central Bei- jing, the 2008 Summer Games drew Sunday night to a close. The Games came to the end of their 17-day run after a ceremony — featuring bouncing3 and flying men, drum carts, rotating poles, light wheels precisely 2.008 meters in diameter and 1,148 silver bell-wearing dancers in yellow dresses, all of it a lead-up4 to the entry of the ath- letes of the world, who by tradition on the night of closing ceremony mingled5 together, without regard to nationality, in the center of the stadium.
Notes: 1. pyrotechnics [!pai"r"u'tekniks] 绚丽的烟火。
2. simultaneously [sim"l'teini"sli] 同时地。 3. bounce [bauns] 弹跳。 4. lead-up 前导, 准备。 5. mingle ['mi#$l] 混合。 6. palette ['p2lit] 调色板。 7. rousing 活跃的, 鼓舞人的。 8. prelude [pri'lju%d] 序曲, 前奏。
Moreover, these 2008 Games established on several front benchmarks against which succes- sive editions of the Olympics are sure to be measured.15
The venues16 were first-rate, several archi- tectural marvels17. The buses ran on time. Pollu- tion-related concerns18 ultimately played no part in the sports schedule. And the thousands of blue-shirted volunteers could not have been more friendly19, polite and welcoming — even when, as was frequently the case, the language barrier proved formidable20.
志愿者不可能再友好了, 意即: 志愿者极其 友好。 20. formidable ['f$"mid!bl] 难以克服的。 21. oversee 监督, 视察。 22. wildly [waildli] ( 俚) 非凡地, 不寻常地。
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