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冬奥会志愿者伸出援助之手｜Lending a helping hand

Volunteers play an integral part in the running of every Olympics, and the volunteer work at Beijing 2022 will leave an important legacy for years to come, according to the Games' organizing committee.

北京冬奥组委表示，志愿者是奥运会筹办团队中不可或缺的部分，2022年北京冬奥会的志愿工作将为未来提供宝贵的经验财富。

Teng Shengping, director-general of the volunteer department of the Beijing organizing committee, said that after the Games an extensive review will be carried out to learn from, transform and promote volunteer work in the areas of human resources and digital and intellectual heritage.

北京冬奥组委志愿者部部长滕盛萍介绍，北京冬奥会结束之后，奥组委将在人力资源、数字遗产和知识遗产等领域广泛开展学习研究，以进一步推动和改造志愿者的工作。 

"After the Beijing Olympic andParalympicGames we will keep in touch with the volunteers to preserve talents for development. We will also review all the mechanisms, policies and projects formulated for the Gamesso they can contribute to the Olympic culture," Teng said.

“北京冬残奥会结束后，我们将与志愿者保持联系，发展保留人才。我们还将审查冬奥会的所有机制、政策和项目，以便让它们为奥运文化作出更多贡献。”  滕盛萍说。

There are more than 18,000volunteers at the Beijing Winter Games, including those working directly in the competitions, as well as venue management, language services and media services. Among them, 63 percent are working in the Beijing competition zone, 12 percent in Yanqing and 25 percent in Zhangjiakou. About 94 percent of all the volunteers are aged under 35.

北京冬奥会共录用了志愿者是18000多人，其中北京赛区占比约是63%，延庆赛区约12%，张家口赛区占比约25%，35岁以下的青年人占了94%。志愿者服务涵盖了体育竞赛、场馆管理、语言服务、新闻运行等业务领域。

"Before they serve the Games, all of them received extensive training, including those for both general and specific positions," Teng said.

滕盛萍表示：“所有志愿者在正式上岗服务前都接受了较为系统的培训，包括通用培训、场馆培训和岗位培训，专业志愿者还接受了专业培训。”

With the Games taking place during Spring Festival, a time annually when families traditionally reunite, a special "home for volunteers" was created inside the closedloopto provide a morefestive atmosphere for them.

由于北京冬奥会恰逢中国的春节，而这一传统节日意味着每年合家团圆的时期。因此，北京冬奥组委在闭环内设立了“志愿者之家”，为志愿者们创造更浓厚的节日氛围。

Teng said there were greater challenges in organizing the Winter Games volunteers compared to the Summer Games in 2008, because of the pandemic and a lack of knowledge and experience in serving winter sports.

 滕盛萍表示，2022年北京冬奥会志愿者与2008年北京奥运会志愿者的工作相比起来，还是有很大的不同。他们需要面临新冠肺炎疫情、冰雪运动特殊性、三个赛区来回奔波等方面的挑战。

"We added more training for pandemic prevention beforehand and had more medical volunteers at all the venues," Teng said.

“我们事先为志愿者们增添了疫情防控培训，并在所有场馆配备了更多的医疗保障志愿者。” 滕盛萍表示。

"To cope with the working conditions in the mountain areas and low temperatures, we raised the requirements in recruiting volunteers, requiring them to be in better physical condition and to have more knowledge of winter sports."

“为应对山地低温环境，我们在招募志愿者时提高了标准，需要志愿者身体素质好，对冬季运动有更多的了解。”

Serving at the Games has been a special experience for the volunteers.

为冬奥会服务对于每一位志愿者来说都是一次独特的体验。

"We all love volunteering and we love the Olympic Games, so we became the volunteers here,"said Wei Yining, apostgraduatestudent from Beijing Forestry University.

北京林业大学园林学院研究生魏伊宁表示：“在主媒体中心工作的这一个月，被问最多的问题就是为什么来冬奥会当志愿者。我是因爱而来，现在我带着我们的爱来到北京冬奥会。”

"The whole world is fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, but because of the Olympic Winter Games, we gathered together and united together. It's so valuable for us to be together and inspire each other.

“这两年全世界都在和疫情作斗争，冬奥会让我真正体会到相聚不易。但也正是因为冬奥，我们团结互助、相互激励，这真是太宝贵了。”

"I hope the warmth from all the volunteers here can stay with you all the time. And together with this unforgettable experience, we can head toward the future."

“我特别希望冬奥会结束时，大家可以把志愿者的温暖当作礼物带走。这样我们就可以携起手来，带着这段难忘的经历走向未来。”

Paralympic

英 [pærə'lɪmpɪk]；美 [pærə'lɪmpɪk]

n. 国际残疾人奥运会

loop

英 [luːp]；美 [luːp]

n.绳等形成的）圈，环

postgraduate

英[ˌpəʊstˈgrædʒuət]；美[ˌpoʊstˈgrædʒuət]

n.研究生

Dressed as a roaring tiger－but with no tail grabs－Frenchwoman Lucile Lefevre stole the show at snowboarding Big Air's qualifying round on Monday as she celebrated the Year of the Tiger in her career finale at Beijing 2022.

在2月14日进行的北京2022年冬奥会单板滑雪女子大跳台资格赛中，法国选手露西尔·勒菲弗装扮成一只咆哮的老虎，她现场没有后手抓板但吸睛无数，她以此来庆祝她职业生涯中的最后一个虎年。

Donning an orange-and-black suit while miming a pair of claws in the air, Lefevre captured the crowd's attention in her second run, despite opting for a straightforward jump with no tricks due to a knee injury she sustained during the slopestyle competition on Feb 5.

在2月5日进行的坡面障碍技巧比赛中，勒菲弗弄伤了膝盖。因为膝盖的伤，勒菲弗知道自己无法完成既定的技术动作，于是在大跳台比赛第二轮中，她便以一套黑黄条纹的老虎装上阵，还在空中挥了挥“虎爪”。

Having decided to retire from the sport after Beijing 2022, the 26-year-old crowd pleaser made her final run on the Olympic stage one to remember－not just for herself but anyone watching the Games, which are taking place in the lunar calendar's Year of the Tiger.

26岁的勒菲弗决定在北京2022年冬奥会以后退役，正值中国虎年的这一届冬奥是她最后一场比赛。这是一个值得铭记的时刻，不仅是为她自己，也是为所有观赛的人。

"It is my very last competition. I hurt my knee in the slopestyle, so I was not able to do tricks today. I decided to do the competition, but just do it straighter. It's more fun like this. It's for tiger new year, so everyone wants a picture with me. It was super fun," Lefevre said after her three qualification runs.

“这是我最后一场比赛了。在坡面障碍技巧的比赛中我膝盖受伤了，今天我没办法完成既定的技术动作了。我仍决定完成比赛，但更直接一些。这样更有趣。因为今年是虎年，所以每个人都想和我合影。太有趣了。”勒菲弗在三轮预选赛后说道。

"I feel good about it, because the world should be fun. There are a lot of problems in the world. If everyone was peace and easy, the world would be better for sure, that's the message I want to share."

“我很开心，因为一切本都应更有趣些。世界上有太多麻烦了，如果每个人都能抱着轻松幽默的心态，世界也会变得更美好，这就是我想带给大家的。”

Before soaring into the spotlight on Monday, the head-to-toe big cat suit was already a viral sensation on social media outside of China after its owner, Swiss snowboarder Nicolas Huber, wore the tiger disguise during his downtime at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou.

在14日成为网络热点之前，这件全副武装的老虎装早已在瑞士单板滑雪运动员尼古拉斯·胡贝尔的社交媒体上火了。胡贝尔曾经在张家口云顶雪山公园休息时就穿着这件老虎装。

So Lefevre borrowed the suit from Huber, adding flair to her otherwise ordinary jumps off the towering ramp at Shougang Industrial Park in Beijing.

这套吸睛的老虎服就是勒菲弗从胡贝尔那里借来的，为她在首钢滑雪大跳台上因伤无法完成的动作增加了看点。

Lefevre performed the first of her three runs in her standard Team France jacket, before breaking out the tiger suit for her second and third runs. Lefevre scratched at the air for run 2, but after watching a replay, realized the motion just looked funny in mittens. So on her final run, she waved toward the judges' tower instead.

勒菲弗在预选赛的第一轮身着法国队的滑雪服上场比赛，后两轮则换上了老虎装。勒菲弗在第二轮预选赛时在空中挥了挥小虎爪，但看过回放以后，她觉得动作看上去有些滑稽。于是在最后一跳时，选择向裁判的高塔方向挥手。

"It was not super beautiful," she said of her claws. "So I decided for the last one to just say Hi to the judges. And especially the French one, because it's a friend of mine."

“并不是特别好看，”她说到自己的“小虎爪”，“所以我决定最后一跳的时候朝着裁判那边说‘Hi’，特别是朝着法国裁判，因为那位是我的朋友。”

Asked why Huber had the costume to begin with, Lefevre explained that "he's a crazy man, actually". The 27-year-old Huber has been wearing the outfit for a series of videos on his Instagram account, apparently inspired by Lunar New Year celebrations that overlapped with the start of the Winter Games.

当问及为什么胡贝尔会穿这件衣服，勒菲弗解释说“他这人挺活泼，真的。”27岁的胡贝尔在他社交平台上发布了几段身着老虎装的视频，既是受到庆祝农历中国新年的启发，也契合了北京2022年冬奥会开幕的时机。

"I asked yesterday if he can give it to me for the day, a special day for me," Lefevre said. "And he said, 'Yes, of course.'"

“我昨天问他能不能把衣服借我一天，对我来说特别的一天。”勒菲弗说。“他说，‘当然可以’。”

The two-time Olympian was unperturbed at finishing bottom of the qualification standings, considering simply competing in the Chinese capital was a victory in itself.

已经是冬奥会两朝元老的勒菲弗在资格赛中排名垫底，但仍轻松上阵。她觉得在北京参赛本身就是一种胜利。

Lefevre was diagnosed with osteochondrosis, a rare illness that stunts bone growth, at 3 years old. She had three operations, and doctors told her sports were off the table.

勒菲弗在3岁时被诊断出患有软骨病，这是一种阻碍骨骼生长的罕见疾病。她经历过三次手术，医生也告诉她不能运动了。

"But then I went snowboarding and made progress. And I'm here (at the Winter Olympics) for the second time," she said.

“但后来我去滑雪，而且越来越好。到今天，我已经参加了两届奥运会了。”

Ranked as high as seventh in the World Cup rankings in slopestyle, Lefevre has carved out a successful sporting career as a pro snowboarder but came to a decision a year ago that her body could not quite sustain the challenging nature of the high-flying sport anymore.

勒菲弗在坡面障碍技巧项目上世界杯排名第七。作为一名专业滑雪运动员，她已经在运动生涯中获得了成功。但一年前，她的身体早已无法承受高空滑雪这项运动了。

What happens next? The Upper Alps native plans to enjoy time with her father at his sailing school.

接下来做什么呢？出生在法国布里安康，被阿尔卑斯山怀抱的勒菲弗打算去她父亲的航海学校。

"I may train baby snowboarders," she added.

“我可能会教小朋友滑雪吧。”

编辑：陈月华

记者：孙晓晨

录音：Stephanie Stone

北京冬奥会人造雪获运动员盛赞：迄今为止最好的|Beijing 2022 Gets High Marks for Sustainable Artificial Snow

Beijing normally doesn't have much snow in winter, so artificial snow is being used at venues for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, with the quality of the white snow drawing praise from many athletes, and even officials.

北京冬天的降雪量一般不大，因此2022北京冬奥会的比赛场地使用了人造雪，这些洁白人造雪的质量获得了许多运动员和官员的好评。

Artificial snow gives the courses a better and more stable quality.

人造雪给比赛现场带来了更好、更稳定的质感。

"This is by far the best man-made snow I've ever skied on," American freestyle skier Ashley Caldwell said at a press conference.

美国自由式滑雪运动员阿什利·考德威尔在一次新闻发布会上表示：“这是我迄今为止滑过的最好的人造雪。”

After receiving feedback from many athletes through the training period and first days of competition, Kit McConnell, sports director of the International Olympic Committee, said the participants believe the artificial snow is outstanding.

国际奥委会体育总监基特·麦康奈尔在训练期间和比赛前期收集了许多运动员的反馈后表示，运动员们认为这些人造雪非常出色。

"The focus is on doing this in a sustainable way, and also ensuring the athletes have an outstanding field of play on which to compete at the Olympic level," McConnell said.

麦康奈尔称：“主办方致力于用可持续的方式来生产人造雪，同时确保运动员拥有奥运竞技所需的绝佳比赛场地。”

Athletes have told Bernhard Russi, chairman of the International Ski Federation's alpine committee, that the man-made snow was easy to ski on.

运动员们告诉国际滑雪联合会高山滑雪委员会主席伯恩哈德·鲁西说，在这些人造雪上滑雪很轻松。

Russi, also a former Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and one of the course designers of the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center in Beijing, told China Central Television: "I think for the skiers it's just like paradise."

鲁西告诉央视记者说：“我认为对于滑雪运动员来说，在这种人造雪上滑行就像在天堂一样美妙。”鲁西曾经是瑞士高山滑雪运动员，也是北京延庆国家高山滑雪中心的赛道设计者之一。

"In order to have a perfect course for alpine racing, you need man-made snow to get the quality right – compact snow for the power which these racers are able to put down on the snow," Russi said.

鲁西说：“为了营造出适合高山滑雪比赛的完美赛道，你需要使用人造雪来保证赛道质量——雪必须十分密实，能承受运动员对雪地的压力。”

Although sometimes mixed with natural snow, artificial snow has mostly been used in competitions in the past five to 10 years, he added.

鲁西补充道，尽管有时雪场上也混杂了天然降雪，但是过去五到十年来滑雪比赛中用的大多是人造雪。

Snow-making machines were first deployed at the Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympics in the United States. At Sochi 2014 in Russia, 80 percent of the snow was artificial, and the figure was 90 percent at Pyeongchang 2018 in South Korea.

1980年美国普莱西德湖冬季奥运会首次配置了造雪机。2014年在俄罗斯索契冬奥会上，赛场上80%的雪都是人造的，到了2018年的韩国平昌冬奥会这一数字达到了90%。

Cooled water and compressed air are mixed in the snow cannon and shot out into water droplets at an angle. With the help of low temperatures, these droplets will become ice crystals.

冷却的水和压缩空气在造雪机中混合后倾斜喷射到水滴中。在低温作用下，这些水滴就会凝结成冰晶。

There are totally nine types of snow made by snow machines, with different water content. The smaller type number is closer to powder snow. The larger number means the snow is wetter. Drier snow is used in the daytime, while No. 7 or No. 8 snow is used during the nighttime with over minus 20 degrees Celsius.

依据水质的不同，造雪机一共可以造出9种雪。编号数字越小，越接近粉状雪。编号数字越大，说明雪的湿度越大。比较干的雪在白天使用，而7号和8号雪在气温零下20度以上的夜间使用。

The use of different types of snow is factored in what's needed for each sport.

具体使用哪种类型的雪，要由各种运动项目的需求而定。

"In most cases, No. 5 snow is used," revealed Wei Qinghua, mountain operation manager of the Zhangjiakou Guyangshu venue cluster for Beijing 2022.

2022北京冬奥会张家口赛区古杨树场馆群的运行场地经理魏庆华透露说：“大多数情况下都使用5号雪。”

On November 7, during the preparation for the Games, Chongli District in Zhangjiakou saw its first snowfall this winter.

11月7日，在冬奥会筹备期间，张家口崇礼区降下了这个冬天的第一场雪。

But the 20-centimeter-thick snow was cleaned up, because it would be more dangerous to use natural snow as it falls off more easily and brings safety risks.

但是20厘米厚的天然雪都被清理掉了，因为使用天然雪更危险，原因是天然雪更容易塌陷，会造成安全隐患。

The snow machines work round the clock, so the staff work in three shifts.

造雪机昼夜不停地工作，工作人员也是三班倒。

However, there are concerns regarding the environmental hazards of using so much water for snow-making.

然而，有人担心使用这么多水来造雪会危害环境。

The snow machines at Beijing 2022 have completely used renewable energy since the beginning of snow production.

其实，从一开始，2022北京冬奥会的造雪机使用的就全都是可再生能源。

"Water used for snow-making only comes from rainfall and surface runoff, and it can be recycled," Wei pointed out.

魏庆华指出：“造雪只用来自降雨和地表径流的水，而且这些水都是可循环利用的。”

"For water from melted snow, we have a reservoir and two lakes which can store it so that it can then be used for agriculture, irrigation, tourism and landscaping."

“雪融化后变成的水会流入一个水库和两个湖储存起来，这样以后还可以用于农业、灌溉、旅游业和景观美化。”

alpine

英 [ˈælpaɪn]；美[ˈælpaɪn]  

adj. （尤指中欧）阿尔卑斯山的；高山的

n. 高山植物

paradise

英 [ˈpærədaɪs]；美[ˈpærədaɪs]  

n. 天堂；（某些宗教所指的）天国；乐园（指美好的环境）；（某类活动或某类人的）完美去处

compact

英 [kəmˈpækt , ˈkɒmpækt]；美[ˈkɑːmpækt , kəmˈpækt]  

n. 契约；小汽车；带镜小粉盒；协定；合约

adj. 紧凑的；紧密的；小型的；袖珍的；体积小的；坚实的；矮小而健壮的

vt. 把…紧压在一起（或压实）

deploy

英 [dɪˈplɔɪ]；美[dɪˈplɔɪ]  

vt. 部署；调度（军队或武器）；有效地利用；调动

reservoir

英 [ˈrezəvwɑː(r)]；美[ˈrezərvwɑːr]  

n. 水库；蓄水池；（大量的）储备，储藏；储液器

凯莉持续创佳绩|Kelly Keeps Crushin' It

The list of "firsts" Kelly Sildaru has next to her name continues to grow after she secured bronze on Tuesday at the Beijing Winter Games, becoming the first Estonian athlete to win an Olympic medal in freestyle skiing.

本周二，凯丽·希尔达鲁获得了北京冬奥会自由式滑雪女子坡面障碍技巧比赛铜牌，成为首位在自由式滑雪项目上获得奥运奖牌的爱沙尼亚运动员，其“第一”的履历又添新笔。

Born in 2002, she has also become the youngest Olympic medalist from Estonia in either the summer or winter edition of the Games.

希尔达鲁生于2002年，她同时是爱沙尼亚冬奥会和夏奥会最年轻的奖牌获得者。

Wearing a black snow jacket and maroon pants, Sildaru stood out against the brilliant white course during Tuesday's final. With her signature long, blonde hair flowing out from her black helmet, the 19-year-old made one last check on her skis and poles before taking a deep breath and setting off on her run.

在周二的决赛中，希尔达鲁身穿黑色雪地夹克和栗色长裤，在亮白的滑雪场上格外惹人注目。这位19岁女孩标志性的金色长发从她黑色的头盔下飘出。在完成对滑雪板和滑雪杆的最后一次检查后，希尔达鲁深吸一口气，开始投入比赛。

The Estonian flagbearer was the last among all 12 athletes to set off in the final after she received the highest score (86.15) during qualification.

这位爱沙尼亚选手在资格赛中获得最高分（86.15分）。决赛场上，希尔达鲁在12名运动员中最后出发。

She finished her first run with a 900-degree rotation and a tailgrab (grabbing the back of the skis).

她以900度旋转和后手抓板动作完成了第一跳。

Her impressive moves and perfect landing gave her a score of 82.06, enabling her to nail a medal despite mistakes in the second run and a low-scoring third.

希尔达鲁凭借令人印象深刻的动作和完美的落地拿下82.06分。尽管第二跳有失误，第三跳得分较低，希尔达鲁还是赢得了一枚奖牌。

Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud won gold and China's Gu Ailing secured silver.

瑞士选手玛蒂尔德·格雷莫德获得金牌，中国选手谷爱凌获得银牌。

"My first run was pretty much like a safe run. That run brought me bronze. I mean I'm happy about it, but it would have been better when I could have put down a better run," she said post-race.

赛后希尔达鲁说：“我的第一跳是用来保底的，那一跳让我能摘下铜牌。对此我很高兴，但如果我能发挥得更好的话就更棒了。”

Although the failure in the second run blocked her path to the gold medal, Sildaru is still enjoying herself at her first Olympics.

虽然第二跳的失败断送了她的夺金之路，但希尔达鲁仍然很享受她的冬奥首秀。

"When I'm skiing, I'm just going to do my best. So I just need to enjoy myself and I'm not trying to focus too much on the medals or on the podium or stuff like that. It's more about my skiing."

“当我滑雪的时候，我会尽我最大的努力，我只需要享受当下。我不想把太多精力放在奖牌啊、领奖台啊之类的事情上。我只把参加冬奥会当作是我去滑一场雪而已。”

Her passion for skiing and hard work have earned Sildaru a series of titles at a young age.

在很小的时候，凭借对滑雪的热爱和刻苦的训练，希尔达鲁就载誉满满。

At age 13 in 2016, she became the youngest gold medalist to date at a Winter X Games event, and the first person to win a Winter X Games medal for Estonia. She is also the youngest to win two X Games gold medals.

2016年，13岁的希尔达鲁就成为了迄今为止最年轻的世界极限运动会金牌得主，也是第一位赢得世界极限运动会奖牌的爱沙尼亚人。她同时还是最年轻的、赢得了两枚世界极限运动会金牌的运动员。

During the Big Air competition of the 2017 Winter X Games Norway, Sildaru became the first woman to ever land a switch 1260-degree mute and a 1440 degree during a competition.

在2017年挪威冬季极限运动会的大跳台比赛中，希尔达鲁成为有史以来第一位完成1260度和1440度动作的女运动员。

Because of her young age, Sildaru was not allowed to participate in the World Cup until 2017 in New Zealand, where she won the slopestyle competition.

由于年龄太小，希尔达鲁直到2017年才获准参加新西兰的世界杯，并获得坡面障碍技巧比赛的冠军。

A knee injury denied her a chance to compete at the 2018 Winter Games, but she later recovered and won a gold medal in slopestyle at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games.

膝盖受伤使希尔达鲁失去了参加2018年平昌冬奥会的机会，但康复之后，希尔达鲁又在2020年青年奥运会上拿下坡面障碍项目的金牌。

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines," Sildaru once wrote in a caption to one of her photos on Instagram.

希尔达鲁曾在Instagram上晒图并配文称“问题不是绊脚石，而是垫脚石。”

What makes Sildaru's achievements even more striking is that she hails from a virtually mountainless nation with an average elevation of around 300 meters.

让希尔达鲁的成就更加引人注目的是，她来自一个几乎没有高山、平均海拔约300米的国家。

"I'm usually training where I have competitions," she said. "Like maybe just going there two weeks earlier for my training and competitions, or we just stay longer."

她说：“我通常在有比赛的地方训练。比如，我可能会提前两周去某个地方参加训练和比赛，或者会在那里待得更久。”

Spring in Finland, summer in France, and couple of months in New Zealand－Sildaru admitted she used to struggle between school and skiing: "It was a little hard at first.

在芬兰度过春天，在法国度过夏天，再在新西兰待上几个月——希尔达鲁承认她曾在学校和滑雪之间挣扎,“一开始有点难”。

"I graduated this spring, so it's been really nice to just focus on skiing," said Sildaru, who will turn 20 on Thursday.

本周四是希尔达鲁20岁生日，她说：“今年春天我就毕业了。以后可以一门心思滑雪，真好。”

Sildaru will compete in the halfpipe qualification on her birthday, with the aim to make the final which will be held on Friday.

希尔达鲁在生日当天参加U型场地技巧资格赛，高分晋级周五即将举行的决赛。

maroon

英 [məˈruːn]；美[məˈruːn]  

adj. 紫褐色的；褐红色的

n. 褐红色；紫褐色；（海上作为信号的）鞭炮

vt. 困住；使无法逃脱

podium

英 [ˈpəʊdiəm]；美[ˈpoʊdiəm]  

n. 讲台；讲坛；（乐队的）指挥台；颁奖台

hail

英 [heɪl]；美[heɪl]  

n. 冰雹；一阵像冰雹般袭来的事物；雹子般的一阵

v. 赞扬（或称颂）；招手（请出租车或公共汽车停下）；跟…打招呼；向…喊；下雹

int. 万岁

elevation

英 [ˌelɪˈveɪʃn]；美[ˌelɪˈveɪʃn]  

n. 高程；提升；提拔；晋级；（某地方的）高度；（尤指）海拔；高处；（建筑物的）立面（图），立视图;（水平或数量）提高，升高，增加

hello I'm Bing Dwen Dwen,

大家好，我是冰墩墩

the official mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Games.

2022北京冬奥会官方吉祥物

Today, let me introduce you

今天让我来为你介绍

to the advanced technologies featured at the Games.

北京冬奥会中的黑科技

The first one is ice making.

首先是制冰技术

For the first time in the history

在奥运会历史上

of the Olympic Games,

首次将二氧化碳

carbon dioxide will be used to make ice.

用于制冰

It is expected to help reduce carbon emissions

这样一来减少的碳排放量

equivalent to that of 3900 cars per year,

预计相当于3900辆汽车的年平均排放量

and cut admissions from the activity to nearly zero.

将奥运会带来的碳排放量减少至接近于零

What’s more, the new ice-making technology

而且新型制冰技术

can precisely control ice temperatures,

能够精确控制冰面温度

and will be helpful to ensure

这有助于确保

standardized hardness of ice surfaces.

冰面硬度达到相关标准

The second one is the Renewable energy and smart grid.

第二个是可再生能源与智能电网

China has signed deals with multiple

中国与多个新能源供应商

new energy providers for the implementation

签署了协议以落实

of the Smart Grid Planning for Low-Carbon Olympics.

支撑低碳冬奥的智能电网综合示范工程

The program will ensure the installation of new

这一工程将确保新的智能电网的安装

and use of existing smart grid technologies

原有智能电网技术的利用

and renewable energy generation,

以及可再生能源的生产

transmission and distribution infrastructure.

传输和分发基础设施的建设和利用

All of the 26 venues in the three competition zones

北京、延庆和张家口三个赛区的

of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou

全部26个场馆

will be powered with 100% renewable energy.

将实现100%可再生能源覆盖

The third one is the 5G network.

第三个是5G网络

So far, all of the stadiums,

目前为止冬奥会的所有体育馆

venues and roads of the Games

场馆和道路

are covered by five g networks.

都覆盖了5G网络

They will help provide excellent broadcasting

这能够提供优质的赛事转播

and online health care services.

以及在线医疗服务

During the Games,

在冬奥会期间

a cloud broadcast platform will enable

云转播平台的使用

journalists to interview athletes contactless

使记者能够通过音频和视频系统

through audio and video systems.

远程采访运动员

They can edit, distribute and store

他们能够在云上远程

all materials remotely on the cloud.

编辑、分发和储存所有材料

Then they can livestream events

他们还能够与远在海外的

with their program directors

节目负责人合作

back in their own countries.

进行赛事直播

And for audiences，

对于观众来说

they will be able to watch competitions online

他们能够在线观看体育赛事

from different angles and points of views

基于自己的喜好

based on their own preferences.

选择不同的观赛视角

苏翊鸣一飞冲天创历史|Su Soars into History Books

Snowboarding prodigy Su Yiming etched his name into the history books by winning China's first Olympic gold in the sport on Tuesday to cap his stunning Games debut.

2月15日，滑雪天才少年苏翊鸣夺金创造历史纪录，实现了我国单板滑雪运动冬奥会金牌零的突破，为他令人惊叹的冬奥首秀画上句号。

By cleanly stomping back-to-back 1800 tricks, the teenager landed the biggest prize so far in his young career－gold in the men's Big Air at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

这名少年凭借两个干净利落的1800高难度动作获得了他年轻职业生涯中迄今为止的最高奖项——北京冬奥会单板滑雪男子大跳台决赛金牌。

The feat realized a childhood dream to reach the pinnacle of the sport, which he began to learn at the age of 4.

这项壮举让四岁开始滑雪的苏翊鸣实现了儿时想当“单板王”的梦想。

Now with two shinning medals, including a slopestyle silver, hung around his neck, the 17-year-old described his superb Olympic debut as an insane experience that has made his sacrifices worthwhile.

此前，苏翊鸣获得了本届冬奥会单板滑雪男子坡面障碍技巧决赛的亚军。如今，他已将两枚闪闪发光的奖牌收入囊中。这位17岁的年轻人将自己出色的冬奥首秀形容为一次疯狂的经历，而这次经历证明了他的付出没有白费。

"This feels so surreal that I've finally accomplished what I've dreamed of since I was little," an emotional Su said after finishing his third run as a victory lap.

在圆满完成第三跳后，苏翊鸣激动地说：“这感觉太梦幻了！我实现了从小到大一直以来的一个梦想。”

Su secured the gold with a winning total of 182.5 points from his first two jumps.

前两轮成绩相加，苏翊鸣拿下182.5分，已锁定冠军。

"When Beijing won the Olympic bid (in 2015), I was still in elementary school, yet I promised myself that I would try to make it to my home Olympics. To many people, it sounded like an unrealistic goal.

“当北京申（冬）奥成功时（2015年），我还在上小学，但我向自己承诺，我要努力，在家门口为国出征，站上冬奥会的领奖台。对许多人来说，这个目标听起来并不现实。”

"Now it's become a reality, and even better I have finished on top of the podium. I am so proud of myself and thankful to my coach, everybody who supported me along the way and my country."

“现在我已经兑现了对自己的承诺。更棒的是，我拿到了冠军。我为自己感到骄傲。感谢我的祖国、我的教练，感谢这一路上所有支持我的人。”

Also putting down two excellent runs, Norway's Mons Roisland finished second, 10.75 points behind Su, while Canadian rider Max Parrot won bronze (170.25 points). Parrot edged Su to gold in last week's slopestyle.

挪威选手蒙斯·勒伊斯韦兰的两跳也表现出色，但仍落后苏翊鸣10.75分，最终获得亚军；加拿大车手马克斯·帕罗特获得季军（170.25分）。在上周的单板滑雪男子坡面障碍技巧决赛中，帕罗特曾击败苏翊鸣，获得金牌。

Parrot was full of praise for Su, who idolized the Canadian veteran when he was younger.

帕罗特对苏翊鸣赞誉有加。苏翊鸣从小就崇拜这位加拿大老将。

"I'm really happy I've been able to help him reach his goals and I told him that he's gotta make me push my way to be a better snowboarder as well," said Parrot, a five-time World Cup winner in Big Air.

帕罗特说：“我真的很高兴我能帮助苏翊鸣实现他的目标。我告诉他，他也要鞭策我努力成为一名更好的滑雪运动员。”帕罗特曾五次获得世界杯大跳台比赛冠军。

"I think my goal and also the goals of most of the riders is to promote our sport and to give our love to our sport to anyone else out there and hopefully we have some more younger snowboarders coming soon to the world."

“我认为我的目标，同时也是大多数选手的目标，就是推广我们的运动，把我们对运动的热爱传递给其他人。希望有更多年轻的滑雪运动员登上世界的舞台。”

Over the past four years, Su has combined his innate talent with hard work－under the guidance of renowned Japanese coach Yasuhiro Sato－to produce one of the swiftest rises to prominence the sport has ever seen.

在过去的四年里，在日本著名教练佐藤康弘的指导下，苏翊鸣将自己的天赋与勤奋结合，创造了单板滑雪运动有史以来最迅速的崛起。

When the Shougang Big Air venue hosted its first international event－a World Cup meet in 2019－Su was an obscure qualifier, who didn't even make the final runs.

当首钢滑雪大跳台举办其第一场国际赛事——2019年世界杯比赛时，苏翊鸣还是位名不见经传的预选赛选手。他甚至没有进入决赛。

Just over two years later, Su is the name on everyone's lips at the venue's Olympic debut－drawing the whole nation's attention to the sport he loves.

仅仅两年多后，在该场馆首次举办冬奥会时，苏翊鸣就已家喻户晓，激起全民关注单板滑雪运动的热潮。

"The biggest motivation for me is my love for snowboarding," Su said, when asked about the secret to his success. "In snowboarding, I feel like I can demonstrate my own style and creativity. Every time I ride my board, it's always a blissful moment. I hope through my experience, I can inspire more young people to get interested in the sport."

当被问及他成功的秘诀时，苏翊鸣回答说：“我最大的动力就是我对单板滑雪的热爱。在单板滑雪运动中，我觉得我可以展示自己的风格和创造力。每次站在滑雪板上，就很幸福。我希望我的经历能够激发更多年轻人对这项运动的兴趣。”

Su's golden day matched fellow teenage skier Gu Ailing, who also claimed gold in Big Air's freeski equivalent on Feb 8 at the towering slope built on the former site of a relocated steel mill.

苏翊鸣的优异表现让他成为与谷爱凌一样颇受关注的冬奥小将。2月8日，谷爱凌于首钢滑雪大跳台举行的自由式滑雪女子大跳台决赛中获得金牌。首钢滑雪大跳台于一家钢厂旧址上修建，场内斜坡高耸。

Boasting multi-medal performances at the Games, both young athletes have shot to celebrity status in the country while attracting hordes of new fans on social media.

这两位年轻运动员都在冬奥会上获得了多枚奖牌。两名小将一举成名，在社交媒体上收获大批新粉丝。

Su, a former child actor who featured in action movies, said the Olympic gold will encourage him to seek for more breakthroughs－even beyond his athletic career.

曾出演动作片的昔日童星苏翊鸣说，奥运金牌将鼓励他寻求更多突破——甚至超越他的体育生涯。

 "I enjoy snowboarding just as much as I enjoy acting," said Su, who turns 18 on Friday.

本周五即将年满18岁的苏翊鸣说：“我喜欢单板滑雪运动，就像我喜欢表演一样。”

"I think I still have a lot of possibilities to explore in my future career either in snowboarding or in acting. But now I just want to enjoy the moment and celebrate it as the best possible birthday gift."

“我想在我未来的职业生涯中，无论是单板滑雪还是表演，我仍然有很多机会去探索。现在我只想享受这一刻，今天这个时刻是给我18岁生日最好的生日礼物。”

prodigy

英 [ˈprɒdədʒi]；美[ˈprɑːdədʒi]  

n. （年轻的）天才，奇才，精英；神童

pinnacle

英 [ˈpɪnəkl]；美[ˈpɪnəkl]  

n. 顶点；顶峰；鼎盛时期；（建筑物）小尖顶；（尤指山顶的）尖岩，兀立岩石

prominence

英 [ˈprɒmɪnəns]；美[ˈprɑːmɪnəns]  

n. 重要；突出；卓越；出名

obscure

英 [əbˈskjʊə(r)]；美[əbˈskjʊr]  

adj. 模糊的；无名的；鲜为人知的；费解的；难以理解的

vt. 使模糊；使隐晦；使费解

n. 朦胧；黑夜

blissful

英 [ˈblɪsfl]；美[ˈblɪsfl]  

adj. 幸福的；极乐的

国际奥委会官员盛赞北京冬奥：运动员纷纷点赞|Athletes are all Smiling and Praising Quality of Beijing 2022, Says IOC Official

Alwaysa Satisfaction

各国运动员都满意

Dubi introduced that the IOC president Thomas Bach used to have a very important meeting every morning to go through Games coordination, but he called it off just a few days ago, which, as Dubi explained, is "very rare."

杜比介绍说，国际奥委会主席托马斯·巴赫过去每天早上都要开一个非常重要的赛事协调会议，但就在几天前，他取消了这个会议。杜比称，这是“非常罕见的”。

"This says a lot about the quality of the organization, the attention to the details," said Dubi. "But in particular, the organizers are doing everything to support the athletes."

杜比说：“这说明了赛事的组织质量，以及对细节的重视，尤其是组织者正在全力支持运动员。”

"No athletes have said anything critical. On the contrary, they are all smiling and praising the quality of the venues, the quality of the organization, the quality of the accommodation and the food. When the athletes are satisfied, you cannot expect anything more," he said.

杜比称：“没有运动员提出过任何批评。相反，他们的脸上洋溢着笑容，都在称赞场馆、赛事组织、住宿和餐饮的质量。当运动员都心满意足时，我们还有什么不满意的呢。”

"You have the most advanced weather forecasting system, great operators teaming up with the International Federations and the media, whatever the weather throws at us, we're going to meet the challenge."

“北京冬奥组委拥有最先进的天气预报系统，与国际单项体育组织、奥林匹克转播服务公司等也密切配合，因此无论遭遇什么样的坏天气，我们都可以克服。”

"I never expected that you would go over and above," he said.

他表示：“我没有想到，你们会做得更好。”

Dubi went on with the natural CO2 refrigeration systems being used at four Beijing 2022 ice venues as it is "far better than anything we had previously," as well as methods used in the Yanqing competition zone, which "will set up the new standard for the future, including in more traditional winter countries."

杜比称，北京冬奥会四个冰上场馆使用的二氧化碳制冷剂，“比以前使用的制冷剂都要好”。他还表示延庆赛区的做法为未来、为许多传统冬季运动国家树立了新标准。

Never a Doubt

从未担心北京冬奥会因疫情而延期

When being asked if there was a moment of concern about the rescheduling of Beijing 2022, Dubi said "no" without any hesitation.

当被问及在过去，有没有一刻担忧过北京冬奥会因疫情而延期？杜比的回答很干脆：“从来没有。”

"When we took the decision to postpone Tokyo, life was suspended. Everybody was confined at home, everything stopped including sports.

“当我们决定推迟东京奥运会的时候，全世界都按下了暂停键，大家只能待在家里，包括体育赛事在内的一切活动都停止了。”

Then throughout the summer of 2020, sports resumed, a number of competitions were organized under different circumstances. And we started to see it's possible to host an event on a smaller scale. And then we learned a lot from Tokyo."

“但从2020年夏天开始，体育赛事逐渐恢复，在不同的情况下组织了一些比赛。我们看到了举办相对较小规模体赛事的可能。东京奥运会的成功举办也提供了许多经验。”

"But without the concern of any postponement or big impact, we've never ever had any doubt that it (Beijing 2022) would be delivered," Dubi said.

杜比说：“但是我们从来没有担心过北京冬奥会推迟或受到重大影响，我们从来没有怀疑过北京冬奥会能如期举行。”

Dubi also admitted that the degree of sophistication to deliver the Games amid COVID-19 from an operational standpoint as it would already require hundreds of policies and procedures under normal circumstances, not to mention the pandemic.

杜比还坦言，从操作上来看，在新冠疫情期间举办奥运会很复杂。在没有疫情的情况下，举办一届奥运会原本就有成百上千条政策与程序，更不用提疫情带来的问题。

As some have claimed that it is impossible to experience Beijing and China in a closed-loop, Dubi shared a different point of view.

对于有声音称在闭环内无法体验北京和中国的生活，杜比持有不同观点。

"The number one objective was to hold the Games in a safe way, and the closed-loop is delivering exactly that," he said. "And we are interacting with the citizen of Beijing through the volunteers, the organizing committee and the technical officials. It's an experience of the Olympic Games in times of COVID-19. But number one, everybody is safe."

他说：“我们的首要目标是以安全的方式举办冬奥会，而闭环实现了这一点。与此同时，我们可以在闭环内与北京本地的志愿者、组委会、技术官员等进行交流。这是在疫情下的一届奥运会，所有人的安全是第一位。”

"What amazed me at the time and continue to amaze me today is the dynamism, the incredible will of China and Beijing as a city to develop itself to constantly strive for improvement," Dubi noted.

杜比称：“无论过去还是现在，我一直感叹于中国的活力，中国和北京总是不断追求发展与进步。”

"I can imagine that after the success of 2008 and 2022 [Olympic Games], China will continue to be incredibly successful."

“可以预见，在成功举办2008年北京奥运会和2022年北京冬奥会后，中国将继续取得了不起的成功。”

refrigeration

英 [rɪˌfrɪdʒə'reɪʃ(ə)n]；美[rɪˌfrɪdʒə'reɪʃ(ə)n]  

n. 致冷；清凉；冷却（法）；致冷学

postpone

英 [pəˈspəʊn]；美[poʊˈspoʊn]  

vt. 推迟；延期；延迟；展缓

sophistication

英 [səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn]；美[səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn]  

n. 复杂度；世故；复杂巧妙；高水平

dynamism

英 [ˈdaɪnəmɪzəm]；美[ˈdaɪnəmɪzəm]  

n. 精力；活力；劲头

中国首枚自由式滑雪女子空中技巧赛金牌|Gold in Women's Aerials a First for China

Even when all the scores of the finalists in the women's freestyle skiing aerials were out on Monday evening, Xu Mengtao still couldn't believe she had just clinched the Winter Olympics gold medal that she had strived so long to win.

本周一晚，自由式滑雪女子空中技巧决赛选手的所有分数都已公布。尽管如此，徐梦桃一时仍无法相信自己刚刚获得了她梦寐以求的冬奥会金牌。

"Did I win? Did I win?" she shouted. Yes, the four-time Olympian finally did it at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The gold is also China's first in the event.

她喊道：“我是第一名吗？我真的是第一名吗？”是的，第四次参加冬奥会的中国名将徐梦桃终于在2022年北京冬奥会上如愿登顶，获得冠军。这枚金牌也是中国队在该项目上获得的首枚冬奥金牌。

At the moment the winner was announced, spectators at the competition venue, Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, erupted with joy.

在宣布获胜者的那一刻，河北张家口赛区云顶滑雪公园赛场的观众们欣喜若狂。

As of Monday night, China had won five gold medals at the Beijing Winter Games, equaling its best previous result at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.

截至本周一晚，中国在北京冬奥会上已拿下五枚金牌，追平中国队在温哥华冬奥会上创造的历史最佳战绩。

Xu received 108.61 points for her final jump with three somersaults, which had a degree of difficulty of 4.293－the highest for female athletes. Hanna Huskova of Belarus took the silver with 107.95 points, followed by Megan Nick of the United States with 93.76.

徐梦桃最后一次跳以直体后空翻转体360度接360度再接360度获得108.61分，难度系数为4.293，为世界女子最高水平。白俄罗斯选手汉娜·胡什科娃以107.95分获得银牌，而美国选手梅甘·尼克以93.76分紧随其后。

After successfully landing her final jump, Xu knew she had nailed it and screamed into the cold air, with the temperature hovering around minus 23 C.

在圆满完成最后一跳后，徐梦桃知道自己成功了，她在零下约23摄氏度的寒冷空气中高呼。

Soon afterward, Ashley Caldwell of the US, who had been ranked first after the first round of the final and was the last athlete to jump－made a mistake on her landing and finished in fourth place.

最后出场的美国选手阿什莉·考德威尔在决赛第一轮比赛后排名第一，但她在第二轮比赛落地时没有站稳，最终获得第四名。

"The payoff of hard work may come late, but it will come for sure," Xu, 31, said emotionally. "It's been a long journey, and I always have faith in myself."

31岁的徐梦桃感慨道：“艰苦训练的回报可能会迟到，但从不会缺席。这是一段漫长的旅程，我一直对自己充满信心。”

Xu already owned 27 World Cup golds and received the highest score in the world for jumps among female aerial skiers. But she only managed to bring home a silver medal from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

徐梦桃已手握27枚世界杯金牌，并且还是世界女子滑雪空中技巧最高分纪录的保持者，但她只在2014年索契冬奥会上摘得一枚银牌。

Due to injuries, she finished sixth and ninth at Vancouver 2010 and Pyeongchang 2018, respectively, so winning Olympic gold has been a "lifelong desire", Xu said.

由于受伤，她仅在2010年温哥华冬奥会上获得第六名，在2018年平昌冬奥会上位列第九。因此，徐梦桃表示，赢得奥运金牌一直是她“毕生的梦想”。

"I'm just super excited. This is the first gold medal won by China in women's aerials, and it's just super cool," she said after the victory. "I just wanted to do the best tricks I could and I did it, and that was all."

徐梦桃摘金后表示：“我太激动了！这是中国赢得的第一枚自由式滑雪女子空中技巧赛金牌。这太棒了！我只想尽我所能做到最好，然后我做到了，仅此而已。”

China's Han Xiaopeng had won the country's first men's aerials Olympic gold medal at the 2006 Turin Winter Games.

中国选手韩晓鹏在2006年都灵冬奥会上获得了中国首枚男子自由式滑雪空中技巧的奥运金牌。

Caldwell said she was proud of Xu, whose nickname is Taotao.

考德威尔说，她为徐梦桃感到骄傲。考德威尔还亲昵地称呼徐梦桃为“桃桃”。

"Taotao has been pushing triples for longer than I have, and I respect her wholeheartedly. For her to win the gold medal in her own country is an incredible accomplishment, and it brought tears to my eyes," the US skier said.

这位美国滑雪选手说：“桃桃的三周台动作时间比我长，我打心底里尊重她。她在自己‘家门口’赢得金牌是一个了不起的成就，让人热泪盈眶。”

Xu said she believes systematic training and keeping in good form brought her the gold medal.

徐梦桃说，她相信，她之所以能获得金牌是因为系统的训练和良好的状态。

"I've been in good shape for the past four years, so I've given my best to prepare for this moment. Today I only come here to see the result," she said.

徐梦桃说：“过去四年来，我的状态一直很好，我已经尽了最大努力为这一刻做好准备。今天我来参赛只是为了看看努力的结果。”

"It's going to be a sleepless night for me. I will use every minute to enjoy the win."

“今晚不睡了，要让幸运一刻过得更慢一些。”

clinch

英 [klɪntʃ]；美[klɪntʃ]  

n. 抱抱；（恋人相互的）搂抱，拥抱；（格斗中双方的）互相扭抱

vt. 赢得；解决；成功取得；提供解决办法；确定

spectator

英 [spekˈteɪtə(r)]；美[ˈspekteɪtər]  

n. 观众；（尤指体育比赛的）观看者

somersault

英 [ˈsʌməsɔːlt]；美[ˈsʌmərsɔːlt]  

n. 滚翻；空翻；筋斗

vi. 做滚翻；做空翻

wholeheartedly

英 [ˈhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli]；美[ˈhoʊlhɑrtɪdli]  

adv. 完全同意，全心全意地

冬奥小百科：为什么速滑运动员要佩戴眼镜？| Why do speed skaters wear glasses?

As of The reasons skiers and snowboarders don goggles or glasses might seem a little obvious, especially if you’ve ever hit the slopes yourself. Sunlight reflected off the snow can make it hard to see, and UV rays can even damage your eyesight. Special colored lenses also create contrast, so your whole path won’t look like one flat expanse of whiteness. Not to mention that eyewear shields your eyes from any snow you displace (or that the wind blows into your face).

如果你自己也玩过滑雪，滑雪和滑板运动员戴眼镜的原因应该是显而易见的。雪面上反射的阳光会让你睁不开眼，强烈的紫外线甚至可能损害你的视力。此外，特殊的有色眼镜会让你眼中看到的颜色出现反差，整个雪道不会看起来一片白茫茫。更不用说眼镜可以帮你遮风挡雪，防止运动过程中飞溅起的雪跑进你的眼睛里了。

Olympic speed skaters, meanwhile, are racing inside on smooth ice. So why do they wear glasses?

然而，奥运会的速滑选手是在室内的平滑冰面上比赛的，为什么他们也要佩戴眼镜呢？

According to NBC Olympics, glasses can increase visibility on indoor tracks, too, and some skaters’ lenses are tinted to help with that. And while the ice may look smooth from a distance, those sharp blades can kick up ice chips that could pose problems if they end up in your eyes. In the event of a crash, shatter-proof glasses also protect skaters’ eyes from errant blades and body parts.

据NBC奥运频道报道，佩戴眼镜也可以增强在室内冰场的可视性，为了看得更清楚，一些速滑选手佩戴的还是有色眼镜。尽管从远处看，冰面似乎很平滑，但是锋利的冰刀刮出的碎冰片如果飞进眼睛里，后果还是很严重的。万一运动员摔倒了，防摔眼镜可以保护运动员的眼睛不被随时可能出现在眼前的冰刀和他人的肢体冲撞伤害到。

But the biggest reason speed skaters opt for eyewear just might be their speed. Short-track speed skaters (who race around a roughly 111-meter track) can go as fast as 30 miles per hour or more, and long-track speed skaters (whose track is 400 meters long) sometimes hit about 35 miles per hour. The wind resistance generated by such speed—in a chilly arena—is enough to make any skater’s eyes start streaming with tears. Picture leaning your head out the window of a car that’s going around 35 miles per hour on a cold day: You’d probably want to be wearing glasses, too.

但是速滑选手选择佩戴眼镜最主要的原因可能是与速度有关。短道速滑（冰道周长约为111米）选手时速可达30英里（48千米）甚至更高，而速度滑冰（冰道周长为400米）选手时速可达近35英里。在寒冷的场馆内，这样的速度产生的强大风阻足以把运动员的眼睛冻到眼泪汪汪。想象一下大冷天里在一辆行驶时速35英里的汽车内，如果你要把头伸出车窗外，你应该也想戴一副眼镜。

That said, glasses aren’t a requirement, and you’ll occasionally see speed skaters with uncovered visages. Belgium's Stijn Desmet, for example, has raced in Beijing without eyewear, as has China’s Zhang Chutong.

尽管如此，速滑比赛并不强制选手佩戴眼镜，所以你偶尔也会看到不戴眼镜的速滑选手。举个例子，比利时选手斯泰恩·德梅和中国选手张楚桐在北京冬奥会上就没有佩戴眼镜。

don

英 [dɒn]；美 [dɑn]

vt. 穿上，披上

tint

英 [tɪnt]；美 [tɪnt]

vt. 将…轻微染色；使略有…颜色

errant

英 [ˈerənt]；美 [ˈɛrənt]

adj. 行为不当的；出轨的；出格的

visage

英 [ˈvɪzɪdʒ]；美 [ˈvɪzɪdʒ]

n. 脸；面容

“冰上飞人”高亭宇夺冠｜Gao glides to glory

Gao Tingyu broke a decades-oldjinxwhen he won Saturday's men's 500m speed skating final at Beijing 2022.

在北京冬奥会速度滑冰男子500米比赛中，在开幕式上担任中国代表团旗手的高亭宇打破“旗手拿不到奥运金牌”的魔咒，获得冠军。

The 24-year-old made history at the National Speed Skating Oval by becoming the first Chinese opening-ceremony flagbearer to win gold at either edition of the Olympics in the nation's 42-year Games history.

这位24岁的运动员在国家速滑馆“冰丝带”创造了历史，赢得了自1980年中国首次参加冬奥会以来，第一枚速滑男子项目冬奥金牌。

Clocking an Olympic-record 34.32 seconds to beat Cha Min-kyu (34.39) of the Republic of Korea and Wataru Morishige (34.49) of Japan, Gao also became the first Chinese man to top the podium in an Olympic speed skating event.

高亭宇以34秒32的成绩打破奥运会纪录，击败韩国选手车旼奎（34秒39）和日本选手森重航（34秒49），成为中国第一位站在奥运会短道速滑领奖台上的男性运动员。

The previous record was 34.41, set by Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen of Norway four years ago in Pyeongchang, where Gao won bronze.

上一届世界纪录保持者是挪威选手洛伦森，他在平昌冬奥会创造了34秒41的奥运纪录，而当时高亭宇排名第三。

"I did what I promised－to upgrade the bronze to gold," Gao said. "There was noflagbearer jinx. I raced on home ice and I absolutely gave it my all."

他说：“我兑现了换奖牌颜色的承诺，什么魔咒不魔咒啊。上场，滑就完了。”

Born in Yichun, a city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Gao started skating at the age of 8. After impressing in the junior ranks, he soon emerged as a strongcontenderon the international stage, claiming 500m gold at the Asian Winter Games in February 2017.Ten months later at a World Cup meet in the United States, he set a new national record (34.34) over the distance.

高亭宇出生在黑龙江省伊春市，从8岁开始接触滑冰，在青年组名列前茅后，很快在世界舞台崭露头角，逐渐成为一位强劲的对手。2017年2月，在札幌亚洲冬季运动会速度滑冰男子500米比赛中，高亭宇获得金牌。12月，在速度滑冰世界杯美国站男子500米A组比赛中，高亭宇以34秒34的成绩创造了新的全国纪录。

After his breakthrough at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Gao continued his upward curve, winning the 500m at a World Cup meet in Poland in November 2021, and finishing second in Calgary, Canada, later that season.

在2018年平昌冬奥会速度滑冰男子500米决赛中摘得铜牌之后，高亭宇前进的步伐没有停止。2021年11月，在速度滑冰世界杯波兰站男子500米A组决赛中，高亭宇以34秒26的成绩获得冠军，随后在速滑世界杯最后一战加拿大卡尔加里获得亚军。

On Saturday, Gao raced in the seventh of the 15 pairs, and shot upto the top of the rankings with his Olympic record, which the likes ofdefending championLorentzen and reigning world champion Laurent Dubreuil of Canada could not beat.

1月12日，比赛共有30位选手，分15组进行，高亭宇被分到第七组内道出发。他打破了奥运纪录，一跃成为世界冠军，让平昌冬奥会冠军洛伦森和去年世锦赛冠军洛朗·迪布勒伊等人都望尘莫及。  

Gao said the main difference from his triumphant Beijing run compared to his bronze-medal finish in Pyeongchang was his mentality.

高亭宇表示，与他在平昌冬奥会获得铜牌相比，在北京冬奥会上夺金主要取决于他的心态。 

"This time I skated on home ice and I felt both nervous and excited, which is good for competing in important races," Gao said.

他说：“主场作战，本就是让人极度兴奋的一件事情，旗手的身份则更能让我充满力量。”

Despite his record time, Gao still wasn't totally satisfied with his performance.

尽管创造了历史，但高亭宇对自己的表现并没有百分百满意。 

"I pulled a leg muscle yesterday, so I didn't skate in my optimum physical condition. I reckon I could shorten the record more," said Gao, who despite his lightning-fast heroics on ice describes himself as a person who likes to live life in the slow lane.

他说：“我昨天腿部肌肉拉伤了，今天没发挥出来，赛前预想的是要到34秒1左右，这个成绩比我正常水平已经慢了0.1到0.2秒。”尽管高亭宇在冰上以闪电般的速度展现了自己的英雄气概，但他却说自己是一个喜欢慢生活的人。

"I like the sound of wind beside my ears when I skate. It feels exciting," said Gao, whodrapedhimself in the national flag to celebrate around the infield of the oval.

高亭宇表示：“喜欢风声‘呼呼的感觉’，小时候第一次滑冰，就爱上了这种在冰面上自由自在的感觉，特别神奇又特别享受其中。”他身披中国国旗，在在椭圆形的内场周围庆祝。

His victory earned applause fromdethronedchamp Lorentzen, as well as a fellow Chinese Olympic hero, Zhang Hong.

高亭宇的表现赢得了上届冬奥会冠军洛伦森和中国另一位奥运冠军张虹的肯定。

"He was impressive. He's been the favorite all season, since he skated so fast in the first World Cup meet. He raced so fast that everyone thought it would be impossible to beat him here at the Olympics," said Lorentzen, who finished 15th. "It's cool to see that he succeeds on home soil. I congratulate him."

“他的表现给人印象十分深刻。自从他在世界杯比赛中滑出如此快的速度，整个赛季他都是最受欢迎的选手。他滑得如此之快，以至于所有人都认为在本届冬奥会上击败他是不可能的。”洛伦森说，“看到他在自己的祖国取得成功，实在是太酷了，恭喜！”  

Zhang, China's first Olympic gold medalist in speed skating, was thrilled to see a Chinese man finally top the podium in the sport.

张虹曾获得中国冬奥会历史上的第一枚速度滑冰金牌，在看到中国短道速滑运动员再次登上奥运会领奖台时很是激动。

"I'm very glad to see my championship has been passed on after eight years," said Zhang, who retired in 2018."Gao is more confident and more mature than me. I hope he can enjoy the moment.

张虹于2018年退役，她表示：“我真心觉得8年前的这个冠军现在能传承下去，有更多的突破，自己作为一名速度滑冰选手感觉到特别的荣幸和自豪。他（高亭宇）比我更有自信、更成熟。我也希望他享受这一刻。”

"Now I can say to the world that we have the best speed skaters, the best venue and we are truly a winter sports country."

“我相信这一刻我们的骄傲可以向全世界来说，我们有最棒的运动员，我们有最棒的速度滑冰场馆，我们就是一个冰雪大国。”

jinx

英 [dʒɪŋks]；美 [dʒɪŋks]

n. <非正>厄运，霉运，不祥的人[物]

contender

英 [kənˈtendə(r)]；美 [kənˈtɛndɚ]

n.竞争者；争夺者

defending champion

英[dɪ'fendɪŋˈtʃæmpiən]；美[ dɪ'fɛnd tʃæmpiən]

n.卫冕冠军

drape

英[dreɪp]；美[drep]

v.遮盖；盖住；身披

dethrone

英 [ˌdi:ˈθrəʊn]；美 [ˌdiˈθroʊn]

vt.废黜，废位赶出