新西兰英语 50 Olympic Successes for NZ

　　Saturday was a golden day for New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics. New Zealanders won two gold medals, a silver and two bronze medals.
The first medal was won by the rowing twins, Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell. This is their second Olympics gold medal; they won in Athens also. Recently though, at the World Games in Poland, they didn’t get into the finals so it was wonderful to see them back to their old form. It was a very close finish and both New Zealand and the German team did not know who had won. They had to wait for the photo-finish results to see that New Zealand had won by only 0.01 of a second.
A short time after that Hayden Roulston won a silver medal in the track cycling. Two other rowing teams won bronze: Mahe Drysdale in the single sculls and George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle in the pairs.. Mahe had a tummy bug¹ most of last week. He vomited² and had diarrhoea for several days and lost weight. When he finished his race, he vomited and collapsed³ from exhaustion⁴. He had been the favourite to win a gold medal so that was very disappointing for him.
Then around 3am New Zealand time on Sunday, Valerie Vili won the shot put with a throw of 20.56m. This was a personal best for Valerie and it was on her first throw. After that, all her throws were over 20m. Only one other competitor managed a throw of more than 20m – the woman from Belarus had one throw of 20.28m.
The Olympic Games is not finished for New Zealand yet. We still have good sailors in yacht⁵ races and Barbara Kendall in the board sailing. And who knows what other people may win.

1 bug   

n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器

参考例句：

• There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
• The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。

2 vomited   

参考例句：

• Corbett leaned against the wall and promptly vomited. 科比特倚在墙边，马上呕吐了起来。
• She leant forward and vomited copiously on the floor. 她向前一俯，哇的一声吐了一地。 来自英汉文学

3 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

4 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

5 yacht   

n.游艇，快艇

参考例句：

• He was responsible for the location of the missing yacht.他负责查明失踪游艇的下落。
• He planned to cross the Pacific by yacht.他曾打算乘快艇横渡太平洋。