夏说英语新闻晨读 第137期:奥运会运动员禁赛

 本期内容：

Russia’s Olympic athletes will not all be banned from competing in Rio de Janeiro, the International Olympic Committee announced. Instead, decisions over bans will be left to individual sports’ federations²; the IAAF, the athletics³ federation¹, had already banned Russian competitors. The World Anti-Doping Agency, which exposed Russia’s massive, state-sponsored doping programme and recommended a blanket ban, said it was disappointed.

词汇讲解：
Ban: 禁赛
Federation：联合会
IAAF：International Association of Athletics Federation
Dope: 复用禁药
Expose：揭露
Massive：大规模的
State-sponsored：国家指使的
Blanket ban：全面禁赛

1 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

2 federations   

n.联邦( federation的名词复数 )；同盟；联盟；联合会

参考例句：

• These problems are women's special problems and special work of women's federations. 这样的问题，就是妇女的特殊问题，就是妇联的特殊工作。 来自互联网
• The Bridge Federate is a feasible solution to achieve multi-federations interconnection. 基于桥接成员实现多联邦互连是目前较为通用和可行的方法。 来自互联网

3 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。