(英文)简述奥运会的历史

(英文)简述奥运会的历史
(英文)简述奥运会的历史

(英文)简述奥运会的历史
The games were held every four years during August and September and the word "Olympiad",which referred to the four year intervals between competitions,was commonly used to measure time.The first documented Olympic champion was a man named Coroebus,a cook from Elis who won the sprint race in 776 BC.Historians believe that the games had already existed for at least 500 years prior to that date.The Olympic Games originally featured only one event:a race called the "stade",equal to a distance of about 210 yards.By 728 BC two additional races had been added,comparable to the 400 meter and 1,500 meter races of the modern games.The Olympics came to include wrestling,boxing and the pentathlon,as well as specialized events for soldiers and heralds.It was only in 472 BC that the events were spread out over a period of four to five days,previously they had all taken place on a single day.
Participation in the Olympic Games was originally limited to free born Greeks,but as Greek civilization was spread by the conquests of Alexander the Great,the Games drew entrants from as far away as Antioch,Sidon and Alexandria.While the only official prize was a wreath or garland,successful athletes were supported by the governments of their cities and devoted much time to training.Most of the competitors were,in fact,professionals.After the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BC,the Olympic Games suffered a decline in popularity and importance,but the Games persisted until AD 393,when the Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered their abolition.
The idea of reviving the Olympic Games originated with Baron Pierre de Coubertin,a 29 year old French aristocrat who first publicly raised the issue in 1892.At a conference on international sport held in Paris in 1894,Coubertin managed to convince delegates from 49 organizations representing nine countries to vote in favor of an Olympic revival.His chief allies in this effort were Dimitrios Vikelas of Greece and Professor William M.Sloane of the United States.The organizers had planned the first modern Olympics for 1900 in Paris,but later decided to move the date forward to 1896 and to change the venue to Athens,though the local government of the Greek capital was initially hostile to the idea.Coubertin and his colleagues of the newly formed International Olympic Committee eventually prevailed,and the first Olympic Games of the modern era were inaugurated by the King of Greece in the first week of April 1896.
The Games of 1896,1900 and 1904 were loosely organized and did not feature national teams produced by rigorous selection.The 1908 Games,held in London in a newly built 66,000 seat stadium,were the first where the events were organized by the relevant authorities in each athletic discipline.More than 2,000 athletes from 22 nations competed in 100 events.The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm drew more then 2,500 competitors from 28countries and featured the first women's swimming events.No Games were held in 1916 due to World War I,but the Games enjoyed strong growth after the war,with 44 nations participating in the 1924 Olympics in Paris.At the1928 Games in Amsterdam there were more than 290 women among the 3,000athletes,more than double the number that took part in 1924.The Olympic Games were suspended again for 12 years because of World War II,resuming in 1948 in London.The post-war era saw steady growth in the number of countries and athletes competing and a dramatic increase in women's events.
Politics began to intrude on the Games in a serious way at the 1972 Olympics in Munich,where Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village.Sixty nations boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,while the Soviets and some of their allies retaliated by declining to take part in the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.The end of the Cold War has eliminated the largest source of political conflict,and most Olympic controversies in recent years have centered on accusations

奥运英语短篇对照：奥运会的历史
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在前13次奥运会中，唯一的赛跑项目是200码赛跑，但很快增加了长距离赛跑等项目。除了传统的赛跑和赛战车外，还有标枪、铁饼、跳远和摔跤等比赛。百人队队长身着全副盔甲在赛跑中展示了他们的速度和力量。甚至还有接吻...

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奥运英语短篇对照：奥运会的历史
[ 录入者:fufull.com | 时间:2008-03-29 00:09:51 | 作者: | 来源: | 浏览:311次 ]
在前13次奥运会中，唯一的赛跑项目是200码赛跑，但很快增加了长距离赛跑等项目。除了传统的赛跑和赛战车外，还有标枪、铁饼、跳远和摔跤等比赛。百人队队长身着全副盔甲在赛跑中展示了他们的速度和力量。甚至还有接吻比赛。最初，古代奥运会只是男人的比赛，事实上，妇女偷看比赛被抓到就要被处以死刑。但是法律最终放宽到允许女人参赛，这对那些参加接吻比赛的男人来说是一个奖励。奥运会获胜的荣誉是巨大的。因为奥林匹亚被认为是圣地，获胜者当众感谢众神，人们给三次获胜者竖起雕像，而且可以免税，这是一项最受欢迎的奖励，因为普通的一等奖的价值只不过是一根芹菜。然而，这些奖励最终腐蚀了奥运会，理想中的业余竞赛者被希腊赌徒资助的（甚至必要时，授予公民权的）外国雇佣者代替了。
自奥运会被取消以来，停赛了1500年。在1889年巴黎博览会上，法国贵族巴伦•皮埃尔•顾拜旦（Baron Pierre de Coubertin）十分羡慕一块展出的古代奥运会奖牌。这块奖牌引发他的灵感，他试图复兴奥运会。然而，起初没有人理睬他的想法。但是他坚持他的观点。在1894年6月的一次12个国家参加的特殊会议上决定重新举办奥运会，另外21个国家表示支持。作为新组建的奥委会主席，顾拜旦指定他的家乡城市巴黎举行1900年第一届现代奥运会，但希腊期望把比赛带回希腊，1896年雅典赶在巴黎之前举行了第一届现代奥运会。
在私人捐赠的资助下，尤其是希腊商人乔治奥斯•阿维柔斯（Georgios Aveeroff）的资助下，希腊组委会筹到足够的钱重新维修了城市著名的早在公元前330年修建的奥林匹克体育场。1896年4月6日下午，希腊国王乔治一世正式宣布第一届现代奥运会开幕。共有来自14个国家的245名运动员参赛，其中希腊运动员146名。当时妇女不准许参赛。虽然没有国家队参赛，但是英国体育协会、德国体育协会，还有大西洋彼岸的波士顿体育协会都派人参加了本届奥运会。第一次来到奥运会的美国人是最不走运的。在海上度过了16天半后，他们于4月5日晚9点到达希腊首都，并且相信他们还有12天的训练时间。4月6日清晨4点，他们被宣布奥运会开幕的铜管乐队的奏乐声惊醒。他们忘了希腊人仍在沿用儒略历，该历制比他们用的公历早11天。
英文翻译：
Fore 13 times in Olympic game, unique footrace item is 200 codes of footraces, but increase very quickly the long pull run a race to wait the item.In addition to traditional footrace with match chariot, still there is javelin, discus, broad-jump with trip and fall down to wait the game.100 people brigade captain body the whole set helmet displayed their speed in footrace with the power.Even still there is kiss game.First, ancient Olympic game just the game of the man, in fact, women peep the game is grasped and will be imposed death penalty.But the law is end to loosen to allow the woman takes part in a game, this attend the man of the kiss game to say to those is a reward.The honor that Olympic game win is enormous.Because a value for secondly passing for is holy land, winning in public thankful the absolute being, people giving three times winning sticking out statue, and can being free of tax, this is a the most popular reward, because commonly first etc. prize is a celery only.However, these rewardses were end to decay the Olympic game, the amateur contest of the ideal inside was hired the by the foreign country that Greece gambler subsidize replace.
Since the Olympic game were canceled, stopped the match the 1500.On the Parisian exposition in 1889, France nobility ?Skin Attend to do obeisance the ( Baron Pierre de Coubertin) envy very much the ancient the medal of Olympic game that a cake of exhibitmidnight.This piece of medals causes his inspiration, he try the renew Olympic game.However, inception no one realizes his viewpoint.But he insists his standpoint.Special meeting that a 12 nations attend in 1894 June the last decision holds the Olympic game afresh, another 21 nations means the support.New a for setting up meeting in conduct and actions chairman, attend to do obeisance the specify his home town city Paris holds the modern Olympic game in first batch in 1900, but Greece the expectation bring back the Greece to the game, rushing through Athens in 1896 at Paris before held the modern Olympic game in first batch.
Under the pecuniary aid of the private endowment, is a Greece businessman particularly George ?The pecuniary aid of the soft ( Georgios Aveeroff) in is next, the Greece a will raise the enough money to maintain the as early as 330 B.C. of the city 著 afreshIn 1896 on April 6 in the afternoon, Greece king George an a life time proclaims the modern Olympic game in first batch opens.Come from totally 14 national 245 athletes take part in a game, among them 146 ： the athlete of Greece.At that time women prohibit to allow to take part in a game.Although have no the national brigade take part in a game, the athletics association of England, German athletics association, still have the athletics association of Boston of the other shore of Atlantic Ocean to all send the ginseng added the current Olympic game.Arrive at for the first time what the American of the Olympic game does not walk most to carry.On the water a training for over 16 days half empress, they on April 5 late 9:00 arriving the capital of Greece, and believing that they still having 12 days time.April 6 4:00 A.M., they were declared the copper brass band that Olympic game open plays music the voice wakes up with a start.They still forgot the Greek at along use the slightly , the 's system compares the Christian ear that they use early 11 days.

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