【一起闲话英语】喜欢参加或者观看什么运动？-Sports

 Adrienne, The United¹ States

speaker What is my favorite sport? My favorite sport to participate in is actually swimming, and I used to do it competitively when I was younger. Now I just do it for fun and for exercise, but my favorite sport to watch is soccer or football, depending on where you're from. I had a really good time watching the world cup this year. It was very exciting and very interesting, so I was really happy about that.

 

Mark, England

speaker What is my favorite sport? By far, my favorite sport is football, or in America they call it soccer because I love the passion² of football and it's a very fast game, so I look to watch and also play football, but I like most sports really. Usually ball sports: rugby, tennis. I like watching all kinds of sports, but to play football has to be number one.

 

Lisa, Canada

speaker What is my favorite sport? My favorite sport to do is skiing³. My favorite sport to watch is ice-hockey. I love ice-hiockey. I think it is the sexiest sport on television today.

 

Peter, Sweden

speaker My favorite sport would actually be only badminton because I hate sports. I don't like football. I don't like ice-hockey. I just hate it when my friends always talk about sports and I go like, " Come on. You don't want to do any thing else? No, we only want to talk about sports." But, so the only sports I like is badminton.

 

Skip, The United States

speaker What is my favorite sport? Well, I've played martial⁴ arts. I've been doing that for around twenty years. Some martial arts are not really sports. They're more for self-defense but for what I do, and my way to stay healthy, is martial arts and running. As far as watching, that's a good question. I would suppose I would have to say, in Japan Sumo is my favorite sport for watching. I've never tried it myself. I would have to probably be three times as big as I am to even begin to qualify⁵ for something like that but, yeah, I enjoy watching it a lot.

 

Phil, England

speaker What is my favorite sport? My favorite sport is definitely⁶ football, or as American English says soccer. I am a very big fan of a vary⁷ small team called Warsol in the English League. They're in the fourth division⁸ in the English League and very, very weak, but when I was in England, I used to travel every weekend to go and watch them play, no matter what the weather or no matter what the results of the likelihood⁹ was going to be.

1 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

2 passion   

n.热爱，强烈的感情，热情，耶稣的受难

参考例句：

• He had a passion for music.他酷爱音乐。
• In his passion,he tore the letter into pieces.在盛怒之下，他把那封信撕得粉碎。

3 skiing   

n.滑雪运动

参考例句：

• I'm a complete novice at skiing. 滑雪我完全是个新手。
• to go skiing 去滑雪

4 martial   

adj.战争的，军事的，尚武的，威武的

参考例句：

• The sound of martial music is always inspiring.军乐声总是鼓舞人心的。
• The officer was convicted of desertion at a court martial.这名军官在军事法庭上被判犯了擅离职守罪。

5 qualify   

vt.取得资格，有资格，限定，描述；vi.取得资格，有资格

参考例句：

• I won't qualify until next year.我明年才具备资格。
• You must qualify yourself for the post.你必须使自己具备担任这一工作的资格。

6 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

7 vary   

vi.变化，有不同；vt.改变，使不同

参考例句：

• Cherries vary in colour from almost black to yellow.樱桃的颜色由近乎黑到黄各不相同。
• Old people don't like to vary their habits.老年人不喜欢改变他们的习惯。

8 division   

n.区分，分开，除法，公司，部门，师(军队里)

参考例句：

• Have you learnt division?你学会除法了吗？
• The division commander ordered that we start the attack before dawn.师长令我们在拂晓前发起攻击。

9 likelihood   

n.可能，可能性

参考例句：

• We must try our best to reduce the likelihood of war.我们必须尽最大努力减少战争的可能性。
• I don't think there is any likelihood of his agreeing to it.我认为不会有他同意那件事情的可能。