作者：小雅和英美友人
Every four years, top athletes in the world compete in a festival of sports, called the Olympic Games.
每隔四年，世界上的顶级运动员们会参加一个运动盛会，叫做奥运会。
There are two types of Olympic Games – summer and winter, which occur two years apart from each other.
奥运会分两种——夏季和冬季，它们每隔两年交替进行。
This year is an exception.
今年是个特殊情况。
Due to the pandemic, 2020 Summer Olympic Games have been postponed to 2021.
由于疫情，2020年夏季奥运会被推迟到2021年举行。
Beijing will be holding the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.
北京将会在2022年举办冬季奥运会。
我们列出了2020年东京奥运会的100多个运动的中英文名称，并对部分项目进行了说明。我们还引用了英国Usborne出版社的Look Inside Sports翻翻书中的句子，用简单的语言向宝宝介绍一些项目。
1. 3x3 Basketball 三人篮球
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2. Archery 射箭
Archers use a bow and arrow to fire at targets.
射箭手用弓箭射向靶子。
3. Artistic Gymnastics 竞技体操
Male gymnasts compete in six medal events: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
男子体操选手在六项比赛中角逐：自由操、鞍马、吊环、跳马、双杠和单杠。
In the women's division, there are four medal events: vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam, and floor.
女子组有四项比赛：跳马、高低杠、平衡木和自由操。
4. Artistic Swimming 花样游泳
Artistic swimming, or synchronized swimming, is a mix of swimming and dance.
花样游泳融合了游泳与舞蹈。
5. Athletics 田径
Athletics involves track, field, road events, and the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon.
田径包括径赛、田赛、公路赛和男子十项全能和女子七项全能。
Track events are mostly running races on a track, including sprint, middle and long-distance events, hurdle race, steeplechase race, and relay.
径赛项目主要是在跑道上进行的跑步比赛，包括短跑、中长跑、跨栏、障碍赛和接力。
Field events involve jumping or throwing things including high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus throw, hammer throw, and javelin throw.
田赛项目包含跳或投掷，包括跳高、撑杆跳、急行跳远、三级跳远、铅球、铁饼、链球和标枪。
These take place on a grassy field.
这些项目会在草地上举行。
The marathon and racewalking events are held on public roads.
马拉松和竞走比赛在公共道路上举行。
6. Badminton 羽毛球
Badminton players hit a shuttlecock made of feathers and wood.
羽毛球运动员打的是羽毛和木头做的羽毛球。
7. Baseball / Softball 棒球 / 垒球
8. Basketball 篮球
9. Beach Volleyball 沙滩排球
Beach volleyball is played on sand.
沙滩排球是在沙子上进行的。
10. Boxing 拳击
Boxers throw powerful punches with padded gloves.
拳击手带着拳击手套击出重拳。
11. Canoe Slalom 皮划艇激流回旋
12. Canoe Sprint 皮划艇静水
13. BMX Freestyle Cycling 自由式小轮车
14. BMX Racing Cycling 小轮车竞速
BMX bike racers speed along dirt tracks.
小轮车选手沿着煤渣跑道赛车。
15. Mountain Bike Cycling 山地自行车
16. Road Cycling 公路自行车
Road riders climb steep hills on their bikes.
公路自行车选手骑车爬过陡坡。
17. Cycling Track 场地自行车
Cyclists race each other around an oval track called a velodrome.
场地自行车选手沿着椭圆形赛道比赛，赛道叫做赛车场。
18. Diving 跳水
There are two diving events, springboard and platform.
跳水比赛有两种，跳板和跳台。
Divers compete to jump into the water in the best possible style.
跳水运动员比赛看谁能用最完美的姿势跳入水中。
19. Equestrian 马术
In an equestrian event, riders guide a horse over jumps.
在马术比赛中，骑手们指引马匹跳过障碍。
20. Fencing 击剑
Fencers fight with blunt swords.
击剑选手用钝剑对打。
21. Football 足球
22. Golf 高尔夫
23. Handball 手球
24. Hockey 曲棍球
25. Judo 柔道
Judo is a Japanese combat sport.
柔道是一个日本的格斗运动。
Players score points by wrestling their opponents to the ground.
选手们通过把对手们摔倒在地得分。
26. Karate 空手道
27. Marathon Swimming 马拉松游泳
28. Modern Pentathlon 现代五项
Modern pentathlons include fencing, shooting, swimming, riding, and running.
现代五项包括击剑、射击、游泳、马术和跑步。
29. Rhythmic Gymnastics 艺术体操
Female athletes perform expressive and acrobatic moves with the aid of handheld apparatuses - a hoop, ball, pair of clubs, and ribbon.
女子运动员带来兼具表现力和杂技动作的表演，会使用以下道具：圈、球、棒和带。
30. Rowing 赛艇
31. Rugby 橄榄球
32. Sailing 帆船
Sailing events take place at sea. Racers steer their boats around markers.
帆船比赛在海上进行。选手们驾驶帆船绕标航行。
33. Shooting 射击
34. Skateboarding 滑板
35. Sport Climbing 攀岩
36. Surfing 冲浪
37. Swimming 游泳
There are four main styles, or strokes, for swimming races – breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle.
游泳比赛有四种泳姿——蛙泳、仰泳、蝶泳和自由泳。
38. Table Tennis 乒乓球
39. Taekwondo 跆拳道
40. Tennis 网球
41. Trampoline Gymnastics 蹦床
42. Triathlon 铁人三项
A triathlon is an endurance sport that combines swimming, road cycling, and distance running.
铁人三项是一个考验耐力的运动，包括游泳、公路自行车和长跑。
43. Volleyball 排球
44. Water Polo 水球
In water polo, as they swim, players try to throw the ball into the other team's goal.
水球比赛中，运动员在游泳的同时要把球扔到对方的球门里。
45. Weightlifting 举重
Weightlifters raise very heavy barbells. There are two types of lifting: the snatch, and the clean and jerk.
举重选手要举起很重的杠铃。有两种类型的举重：抓举和挺举。
46. Wrestling 摔跤
Wrestlers grapple each other to the floor.
摔跤运动员要把对方摔倒在地。
资料来源
olympics.com
2020.cctv.com
Usborne Look Inside Sports 翻翻书
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