英语听力精选进阶版 7941

This week’s question comes from Hui Yao, who wants to know how to say 加油 in English.

Whether you like football, basketball or athletics¹, if you are a sports fan you will want to cheer on your team.

In Chinese, 加油 is the all-purpose chant which you can use for all sports.

But what is the best chant in English?

Of course you can’t translate 加油 literally² into English as it would sound very strange to shout ‘add oil’ at a football match in Britain.

Actually there are a lot of different things you can chant to encourage your team.

Have a look at the list below:

Come on

Go for it

We normally use these phrases to encourage a team that is losing, or maybe when a team is just about to score.

Don’t give up

Keep going

These are both used to encourage a team or player that is losing energy.

Go, go, go!

This is also to encourage people, but is more used for individual athletes, especially racing³ events, than for team sports.

Glossary 词汇

athletics

田径

sports fan

运动迷

cheer on

为…鼓气

all-purpose

通用的

a chant

有节奏的反复叫喊

encourage

1 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。

2 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

3 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。