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Unit 2 PASSAGE A Is Education Still an Important Part of Youth Athletics? Education is an important part of youth athletics in the US. Young kids, cooped up in class, long for the relative freedom of the football field, the basketball court, the baseball diamond. They long to kick and throw things, and the fields of organized play offer a place in which to act out these impulses. Kids are basically encouraged, after all, to beat each other up on the football field. Yet for all the chaos, adult guidance and supervision are never far off, and time spent on the athletic fields is meant to be productive. Coaches seek to give lessons in teamwork, self-sacrifice, competition, winning, and losing. Teachers at least want their pupils worn out so that they’ll sit still in reading class. 教育是美国青少年体育的一个重要部分。被局 限于教室内的孩子们，是很向往自由空间的，像足球场，篮球场，和棒球场。他们渴望踢和扔，而这些空旷 的场地正好为他们提供了一种宣 泄和表 演的平台。孩子们基本上是被鼓励在足球场上打败对方的。然而对于所有的混乱，成年人的指导和监 督是不会离开半步得到，花在运动常识的时间目的在于 让训练去的成效。教练设法给队员们上课，教会他们什么是自我牺牲，竞 争，胜利和失败。老师们则希望他们的学生疲 惫不堪，这样的话学生们就会好好地坐在课室里看书了。 By the time children start competing for spots on junior high soccer or tennis teams, the kids’ gloves have come off to some extent. The athletic fields become less a place to learn about soft values like teamwork than about hard self-discipline and competition. Competitiveness, after all, is prized highly by Americans, perhaps more so than by other peoples. For a child, being cut from the baseball team or denied a spot on the swimming is a disappointment –and perhaps an opportunity for spiritual growth. 当孩子们开始竞 争初中足球队或网球队的职 位时，在某种程度上他们都已经做好了战 斗准备。运动场变成了一个更像学习自我约束和竞争多过于学习团 队合 作这种内在品质的地方。毕竟竞 争力是受到美国人民高 度重 视的，至少相比其他民族的人要重视。当一个孩子被从棒球队或游泳对剔 除是很失 望的——但也许这是一次心灵成长的机会。 High school basketball or football teams are places where the ethos of competition is given still stronger emphases. Although high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are important social institutions, for football games bring