美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-12-11_在线英语听力室

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1. I think it is really hard and hard for people to understand when you have to back away and make a decision to back away from a sport. But, you know, schools do that fairly often actually, they just rarely do it in football or man’s basketball or woman’s basketball.

2. When I was president at Washington, I had to agree with the AD to eliminate a swimming program, men’s and women’s swimming. I know those are hard decisions but they were the right ones for us. And now, I know UAB and their administration has to make the decisions that work for them over the long run.

3. What everybody pays attentions to and what we all love as a country as football or basketball, man’s and women’s basketball. Particularly, both of them, but when schools are trying to support those programs, they are starting to feel the pinch in the Olympics sports, in volleyballs, soccer, gymnastics, wrestling and variety of other things. And I do worry a lot that we may well see in the coming years, a reduction in our commitments from our campuses in those programs.

4. So it is this interesting irony¹ that everybody thinks schools are playing sports because it makes some much money at it. When in reality, they virtually all lose money at it. And so they all are trying to figure out how can we afford to keep doing this and it is becoming increasingly hard…

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n.反语，冷嘲；具有讽刺意味的事，嘲弄
参考例句：
She said to him with slight irony.她略带嘲讽地对他说。 In her voice we could sense a certain tinge of irony.从她的声音里我们可以感到某种讥讽的意味。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-12-11