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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：体育英语 被历史遗忘的10种有趣的运动(下) 5.Cock Shying 5.扔公鸡 Cock-shying, also known as cock throwing, was a blood sport practiced throughout most of England up until the 18th century. If youre looking at the name and thinking this was a cruel game wherein people threw a rooster as far as they could relax, its not that. 扔公鸡的另一种英文写法为cock throwing，是一项凶残的运动，英国大部分地区直到18世纪都十分流行。你看到这个名字也许会自动脑补人们残忍地把公鸡像铅球一样扔得老远的画面。放心，事实没那么简单。 扔公鸡 Actually, people threw things at the rooster until they killed it. Specifically, they threw weighted sticks called coksteles.