体育美语-045 冰球 - Hockey

Y: 今天我和Marc, Patrick一起看冰球比赛。

M: Thanks for inviting¹ me to this hockey game Yang Chen.

P: Yeh. How did you ever get tickets to the Stanley Cup?

Y: Well, I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.

M: Never mind, I don't want to know that bad. But I'm surprised that you are a hockey fan.

Y: I'm not exactly a hockey fan. 我其实不太懂冰球。

M: Oh, I think you are just being modest.

P: Believe me. She is not being modest.

Look! Our team just scored!

Y: 为什么每个人都往冰场扔帽子?

M: Because that player just scored a hat-trick.

Y: Hat-trick? 有人变魔术?

M: There is no magician². It means³ one player scores three goals in one game. When that happens, everybody throws their hat on the ice.

Y: 噢，有一个队员进三个球，我们就说他scored a hat-trick。

Quick, give me your hat! I'm going to throw it.

P: No way! Throw your own.

M: OK. You can have mine.

Y: I have another question. 刚才一个队有五个队员，另一个队有四个。太不公平了。

M: That's because the first team was on a power play.

Y: What is a power play?

M: If a player breaks a rule, he has to sit in the penalty⁴ box. So the other team has an extra player and is on a power play.

Y: 犯规的队员要坐到受罚席，另一个队就是on a power play, 比对方多一个人，所以实力更强。

I have another question.

M: Yang Chen, now I realize you really know very little about hockey.

P: She knows very little about any sport.

Y: That's not true. I can play Mahjong.

P: Like I said, you don't know anything about any sports, because Mahjong isn't a sport.
 

1 inviting   

adj.诱人的，引人注目的

参考例句：

• An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
• The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人，使人感到亲切温馨。

2 magician   

n.魔术师，变戏法的人，术士

参考例句：

• With a wave of his hand,the magician made the rabbit vanish.魔术师手一挥兔子便不见了。
• The magician transformed the man into a rabbit.魔术师把那个人变成了兔子。

3 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

4 penalty   

n.处罚，刑罚，罚款

参考例句：

• If you knock the ball with your hand in football,you will suffer a penalty.如果在踢足球时你用手碰到球，你将受到处罚。
• One of those arrested could face the death penalty.被捕的那些人中有一人可能被判死刑。