英语听力文摘 English Digest 673 为什么要成为一个运动迷

 　　Why Be A Sports Fan?

　　Ever notice how sports fans insist on talking as if they’re one of the players when all you do is watch the games on TV?

　　It could be that cheering a particular team gives them an identity and sense of belonging. They are defining¹ themselves as part of a group. Even if the team loses, the fans watch every game with just as much enthusiasm as the last.

　　The psychological benefit of being part of a group is more important than whether a team wins. The real fans are those who keep rooting for their teams even when they lose. After all, another function of a group is to stick together and protect its members in the face of adversity. Rooting for a losing team increases your sense of allegiance to the group.

 

1 defining   

规定( define的现在分词 )； 使明确； 精确地解释； 画出…的线条

参考例句：

• You can customise the behavior of the Asynchronous Server and hence re-brand it by defining your own command set for invoking services. 通过定义自己调用服务的命令集，您可以定制自定义异步服务器的行为，通过为调用服务定义自己的命令集从而对它重新标记。
• This point can be put another way in defining poverty. 这一点还能从另一方面来加以说明以佐证贫困的涵义。 来自英汉非文学 - 新闻报道