Livorno player dies of heart attack

 　　ROME, April 14 (Xinhua) -- All Italian matches scheduled in the weekend were suspended after Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini died on Saturday from a heart attack during a Serie B match, local media said.

　　A crowd of players and supporters shouted and cried outside a hospital in Pescara, a city in central Italy, when cardiologist Edoardo De Blasio confirmed the death of the 25-year-old.

　　Morosini began to stagger¹ in the 31th minute of the Pescara-Livorno match and then fell to the ground.

　　Medical staff tried to revive² the player and then rushed him to the hospital, but Morosini's conditions were already too desperate to save him, doctors said.

　　It was only the lastest of a long series of sudden deaths in the sport world. A few days ago, another Italian, former Olympic volleyball silver medalist Vigor³ Bovolenta, died of a heart attack during a second-tier league game.

　　The Pescara accident aroused a debate on local media, as some experts denounced⁴ the ambulance was blocked for some minutes by a parked car thus arrived too late to help the unfortunate player on the spot.

　　An investigation⁵ was held over the case, local media said in the late afternoon.

　　"Nowadays it is anachronistic⁶ to have a defibrillator on an ambulance which has difficulties in arriving fast enough," cardiologist Daniela Aschieri told Rai state television.

　　Aschieri has developed the first European project for an "early defibrillation" to prevent sudden deaths due to cardiac arrest.

　　"Defibrillator is a fundamental saving-life instrument, not expensive and that every person can easily handle," the doctor said adding every minute lost in first aid means 10 percent less of probabilities⁷ to save a life.

　　"This instrument should be available not only on ambulances, but on the benches of all matches, including children ones," she stressed.

1 stagger   

vi.摇晃着移动，蹒跚；n.摇晃不稳的动作，蹒跚

参考例句：

• The unexpected blow did not stagger his resolution.这个意外打击并没有动摇他的决心。
• We can't hold the two meetings at the same time,we must stagger them.这两个会不能同时开得错一下。

2 revive   

v.（使）复苏，（使）重振活力，恢复生机，复兴

参考例句：

• These flowers will revive in water.这些花在水中会再活。
• They managed to revive the injured driver with cardiac massage.他们通过心脏按压使受伤的司机苏醒了过来。

3 vigor   

n.活力，精力，元气

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在，她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。

4 denounced   

公开指责( denounce的过去式和过去分词 )； 揭发； 告发； 通知废止

参考例句：

• She publicly denounced the government's handling of the crisis. 她公开谴责政府处理这场危机的方式。
• He was denounced as a foreign spy. 有人告发他是外国间谍。

5 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

6 anachronistic   

adj.时代错误的

参考例句：

• In remembering historic events,the mistake you tend to make is anachronistic.在记历史事件时，你容易犯的错误是时代错误。
• English public schools are anachronistic.英国的公立学校已经落伍过时了。

7 probabilities   

可能性，可能发生的事( probability的名词复数 )； 概率

参考例句：

• When we want something, we always have to reckon with probabilities. 当我们需要某件东西时，我们总得考虑或然性。 来自哲学部分
• Therefore, individual-preference curves should be substituted for statistical probabilities in decision trees. 因此，在决策树中个人的偏好曲线应当取代统计机率。