新视界综合教程2 unit 2 Active reading.ppt

春秋时期，人们建造了游泳池，还对水兵中的游泳健将们进行奖励。类似的运动在古希腊也很普遍，尤其是在斯巴达，军事训练是男孩和女孩们正式教育的一部分。 Translation 原文 在这两个国家，体育经常与舞蹈结合在一起。在天气恶劣的时候，中国会遭受雨水和洪流的袭击。人们会用剧烈的舞蹈来放松僵硬的关节和肌肉，以及消除抑郁的情绪。斯巴达的军事训练包含了舞蹈，古代奥运会也有舞蹈比赛项目。到了现代，人们还是能在花样滑冰和体操项目中看到这种富有动作与节奏的运动形式。 Translation 原文 此外，在古代中国和希腊，体育运动被融合到了教育体系中。夏、商、周时期，所有的学习场所都教授传统形式的搏击。孔子就是一位运动健将，他射箭、垂钓、狩猎和爬山的技艺都很高超。他将六艺引入教育内容中，即礼、乐、射、御、书、数， Translation 原文 这些技艺均注重学生德、智、体方面的发展希腊哲学家柏拉图主张将体育锻炼和健康教育包含到学校的课程中去，和哲学、音乐、文学、体操一起构成教学内容。西方一个常表示学校的术语“gymnasium”（高级中学）便是源自于这个广义的教育概念。 Translation 原文 体育运动，在古代中国和希腊，都与军事训练、舞蹈以及整个教育体系密切相关。那么，中国对于深深根植于古希腊社会的现代奥林匹克理想的欣然接受，又有什么值得惊讶的呢？ Translation 原文 Background information Ancient Greece is well-known for its love of sport. Young men in the ancient Greek cities spent a lot of time exercising in open areas for sporting activities, called gymnasia, plural of gymnasium (古希腊的运动场). There were a number of famous games. Of course, the Olympic Games which took place at the Temple of Zeus (宙斯庙) in Olympia (希腊南部奥林匹亚平原), are the ones best remembered nowadays. Digging Background information Winners in the athletic tournaments and various forms of racing were greatly honoured as can be seen in the many surviving ancient poems on the subject. Greek art also shows the importance of sport to the culture with many statues of discus throwers (掷铁饼者), charioteers (战车御者) and athletes. The passage discusses how similar things were in ancient China. Digging Text Main idea of the passage The writer suggests that all human cultures value sport as a way of keeping fit and training for war. Just as the ancient Greeks included sporting activities in their myths and legends, used sport to train for battle, danced as a way of keeping physically fit and regarded sport as part of a good education, so did the ancient Chinese. Chinese culture has long valued sport and it is not at all surprising that China is such a keen participant in the modern Olympic movement. Digging Text Using rhetorical devices Interpreting A writer sometimes asks a ques