PBS高端访谈:板球会在美国成为主流吗?

 　　And now to a NewsHour Shares, something that caught our eye here that may be of interest to you.

　　When you think of the most popular sports in the world, even us Americans know that soccer is number one worldwide.

　　But what about number two? Believe it or not, it's cricket¹.

　　Now that English game is starting to catch on in the United States.

　　Tina Martin from PBS station WGBH in Boston reports.

　　Suiting up, stretching out and getting in a little batting practice before a cricket match on a remote field in Wrentham.

　　It's an unusual game that most resembles baseball, except you have a bowler² instead of pitcher³, and the ball has to bounce⁴ before you hit it.

　　Games can last for hours, even days, and scores go into the hundreds.

　　I am completely into it.

　　Nitin Meweda has played since he was a boy in India. He says American co-workers were often confused about his favorite sport.

　　That's one thing which used to happen with me maybe five, six years ago. And I would say — they would say, what did you do this weekend?

　　I was like, oh, I played cricket. And they were like, cricket, what is that?

　　Cricket was played in the United States back in colonial⁵ times, but had pretty much died out by the Civil War.

　　But it has thrived⁶ in other parts of the world, with international matches that are among the most watched global sporting events.

　　At some games, there are even royal photo-ops.

　　Cricket in India is a religion. It's more than three times the population of the United States, and there is one sport.

　　Can you imagine like, in States, if you have one professional sport all over the year, how crazy it would be, right? It is crazy.

　　Most of the players in Massachusetts are immigrants⁷, representing far corners of the world.

　　Most of us are from India, but there are a lot of people from Pakistan, and other countries, Sri Lanka, and Australia, and England.

　　Ravi Uppalapati is one of the organizers of the Massachusetts State Cricket League. He says they now have several thousand players.

　　I think there were 12 teams in Massachusetts Cricket League in probably '97.

　　There are more than 30-plus teams now, so things have picked up so much.

　　The MSCL is trying to create a new generation of players, sponsoring⁸ clinics and camps.

　　You see lacrosse these days. Last two, three years, nobody was playing lacrosse.

　　Kids are loving lacrosse. So it's just a matter of like how we introduce, where we introduce.

　　A bigger challenge might be educating the parents on what they're actually watching their kids play.

　　For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Tina Martin in Wrentham, Massachusetts. undefined

1 cricket   

n.蟋蟀，板球运动；adj.公平的

参考例句：

• The England cricket team scored quite a useful total.英格兰板球队得分总数令人满意。
• We could hear the shrill of the midsummer cricket.我们可以听到仲夏时节蟋蟀的尖叫声。
• Your behaviour isn't cricket.你的行为不光彩。

2 bowler   

n.打保龄球的人，（板球的）投（球）手

参考例句：

• The bowler judged it well,timing the ball to perfection.投球手判断准确，对球速的掌握恰到好处。
• The captain decided to take Snow off and try a slower bowler.队长决定把斯诺撤下，换一个动作慢一点的投球手试一试。

3 pitcher   

n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐；(棒球)投手

参考例句：

• He poured the milk out of the pitcher.他从大罐中倒出牛奶。
• Any pitcher is liable to crack during a tight game.任何投手在紧张的比赛中都可能会失常。

4 bounce   

n.弹，反弹；冲劲，冲力；v.(使)弹起(跳起)

参考例句：

• She's got a lot of bounce.她浑身都是劲。
• The ball gave a high bounce.那球弹得很高。

5 colonial   

adj.殖民地的，关于殖民的；n.殖民地，居民

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• The people of Africa have successfully fought against colonial rule.非洲人民成功地反抗了殖民统治。

6 thrived   

v.兴盛，兴隆( thrive的过去式和过去分词 )；长得健壮

参考例句：

• The party thrived under his leadership . 这个党在他的领导下兴旺起来。
• He thrived on the adulation of his henchmen. 他是靠下属的奉承而发迹的。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 immigrants   

n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
• Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 sponsoring   

v.赞助( sponsor的现在分词 )；资助（某人的培训或教育）；为慈善活动捐资；倡议

参考例句：

• To be allowed entry, one had to have a sponsoring U.S. employer. 一个人要获准入境，必须有一个美国雇主作为保证人。 来自辞典例句
• That bank responsible for sponsoring a social programme does not wallow in self-glory. 银行不要因为承担了赞助社会活动的责任而自我陶醉。 来自辞典例句