练习英语口语,奥运会比赛项目英文介绍Wrestling.docVIP

练习英语口语，奥运会比赛项目英文介绍Wrestling If the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the?prologue. When the ancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient game. Widely recognised as the worlds oldest competitive sport, wrestling appeared in a series of Egyptian wall paintings as many as 5000 years ago. When the Games began in 776 BC, more than two爉illenniums爈ater, it included wrestling, and, in the years that followed, wrestling featured as the main event. The sport would return in a similar role when the Olympic Games returned after a 1500-year absence in 1896. Organisers, seeking direct links to ancient times, found a natural in the sport that had enjoyed popularity across much of the ancient world, from Greece, Assyria and Babylon to India, China and Japan. They爎esurrectedGreco-Roman wrestling, a style they believed to be an exact carryover from the Greek and Roman wrestlers of old. In Greco-Roman wrestling, the wrestlers used only their arms and upper bodies to attack. They could hold only those same parts of their opponents. It worked nicely from a historical perspective, but another breezier style was sweeping across Great Britain and the United States by then. Known as catch as catch can, it had become standard fare - and popular professional entertainment - at fairs and festivals in both countries. In 1904, the Olympic Games added the second wrestling event and called it freestyle. Now, wrestlers could use their legs for pushing, lifting andtripping, and they could hold opponents above or below the waist. Help: prologue n. 序言，序幕，开端 millennium n. 一千年，太平盛世 resurrect vt. 使复活；复兴 trip vi. 摔倒；绊倒 相关词汇： Greek－Roman wrestling 古典式摔跤 wrestler 摔跤运动员 standing wrestling 站立摔 on－the－ground wrestling 跪撑摔 bridge 角力桥 free style wrestling 自由式摔跤 bar arm with grapevine 锁臂缠腿 double leg lock 抱单腿拦腿摔 　objective n.目标 　　oblige vt.迫使 　　oblige vt.迫使 　　obscure a.卑微的，无名的 　　obscurity n.默默无闻 　　observant a.观察力锐敏的 　　observe vt.注意到 　　obstacle n.障碍 　　obstinately