The World's Fastest Racket Sport: Badminton 羽毛球
As far back as the 5th century BC, the Chinese were playing Ti Jian Zi, or shuttle-kicking, a game played with the feet. The shuttlecock was there, but it remains unclear whether it led to the game of battledore and shuttlecock that arose about five centuries later in China, Japan, India and Greece. The battledores were the early versions of today's racquets. By the 1600s, battledore and shuttlecock had developed into a popular children's game. It soon became a favourite pastime of nobles and the leisured classes of many European countries, becoming known as "jeu de volant" on the continent.
Badminton was contested as a demonstration sport during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It debuted as a full medal sport in 1992 at Barcelona. Men and women compete at the Olympics in both singles and doubles, and the events have been dominated by Indonesia, China, and Korea. It is recorded that the fastest speed of badminton is 332 kilometres per hour which is made by Chinese double men's players Fu Haifeng.
racket: 名词，文中解释为"球拍"。它还可以作为动词表示"过着花天酒地"的生活。
battledore and shuttlecock: 板羽球游戏
racquet: 名词，球拍游戏。
pastime: 名词，娱乐，消遣
debut: 名词和动词，解释为"初次登场，亮相"。
The World's Crazy Sport: Soccer 足球
Game in which two 11-member teams try to propel a ball into the opposing team's goal, using any part of the body except the hands and arms. Only the goalkeeper, when positioned within the penalty area in front of the goal, may use hands and arms. The game's first uniform set of rules was put in place in 1863, when England's Football Association was created. Professional leagues began appearing in the late 1880s, first in England and then in other countries. The Fédération International de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in 1904, and has hosted the World Cup every four years since 1930. Football has been included in the Olympic Games since 1908. Now played on all continents in over 150 nations, with over 40 million registered players, it is the world's most popular ball game.
propel: 及物动词，解释为"推进"。常用词组"propel sb. to do sth.",意为 "促使某人做某事"。
penalty area: 罚球区
registered player:注册球员 register作为动词时用于短语 "register with sb. or sth.",意为"到...注册，登记"
责任编辑：虫虫
