生活英语口语 第 8 课： Extreme Games (X-Games)极 限 运 动 - 3

A: It would be nice to get out of the city. Do you want some company? 能够离开市区出去走走真不赖。你想有个伴吗？

B: Sure. But, it will be a long hike, 30 miles in three days. Have you been hiking before? 当然。但是，这是一次长距离的旅行，三天走30英里。你以前徒步旅行过吗？

A: Yeah, I go a lot too. I saw a bear and a mountain lion on my last hike. 是的，我也经常去旅行。我上次旅行还看见一只熊和一只美州狮。

B: Wow! You must have been pretty far away from the city. 哇，那你就离市区很远了哦。

A: Yeah, my friend and I hiked in a very wild part of the national forest.是的，那是我和我的朋友在国家森林的一个很偏僻的地方旅行。

B: Well, bring him along too. We’ll have a great time this weekend. 那么，把他也带上吧。这个周末肯定我们会玩得很开心。

A: Thanks, I’ll ask him. 谢谢，我会跟他说的。

Extreme sports are very new in America. They usually come from people trying the craziest things. 极限运动在美国还很新鲜。通常是喜欢尝试刺激的人参加极限运动。

Bungee jumping is a good example. Someone tied a bungee cord to himself one day and jumped off of a very tall bridge. 蹦极跳就是一个很好的例子。某天某人用橡皮筋套住自己，然后从一个很高的桥上跳下。

Bungee cords stretch a lot, so the person lived, but he took a big risk to find out if his idea would work.橡皮筋有很好的伸张力，所以这个人不会有生命危险，但是要证实自己的想法是否管用还是具有很大的冒险性。

Another extreme sport is snowboarding. A skier decided to stand sideways on one piece of wood to get down the mountain instead of using two skis. 另外一个极限运动的例子则是滑雪。一位滑雪者决定使用其中一块木板，侧面站在这块木板上滑下山坡而不是使用两块滑板。

People like these dangerous sports because they are exciting. They often do them for “the rush” they get.人们之所以喜欢这种危险的运动是因为这些运动够刺激。往往就是为了那一股“冲劲”。

The first extreme sport might have been mountaineering, or mountain climbing. 最早的极限运动可能就是登山，或者叫做登山运动。

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest, gave another reason for doing something so dangerous. 艾得蒙.希拉里爵士是第一个爬上珠穆朗玛峰的人，他道出了之所以从事这些危险举动的另一个原因。

When asked why he climbed the world’s tallest mountain, he replied, “Because it was there. 当问到他为什么会选择攀爬世界第一高峰的时候，他回答：因为它在那里。