艺术游泳

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你好。

Hello.

我是Georgie，BBC英语学习频道的英语教师和主持人。

I'm Georgie, an English teacher and presenter at BBC Learning English.

我想向你们介绍我制作的一个全新系列，主题是关于口语表达。

I want to tell you about a new series I've made all about speaking.

克服口语焦虑有助于你战胜说英语时的恐惧。

Beating speaking anxiety helps you fight your fears of speaking English.

每个视频都针对一种不同的恐惧，比如害怕犯错、害怕听不懂别人、以及害怕公开演讲。

Each video tackles a different fear, like the fear of making mistakes, the fear of not understanding people, and the fear of public speaking.

获取实用技巧，观看真实学习者进行口语练习的场景。

Find practical tips and see speaking activities in action with real learners.

请访问我们的网站bbclearningenglish.com，查找《克服口语焦虑》系列。

Find beating speaking anxiety on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

来自bbclearningenglish.com的六分钟英语。

Six Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com.

你好。

Hello.

这是BBC学习英语的六分钟英语。

This is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

我是菲尔。

I'm Phil.

我是贝卡。

And I'm Becca.

你有没有做过什么体力上有挑战的事情，菲尔？

Have you ever done something physically challenging, Phil?

比如跑马拉松，或者爬山？

Like running a marathon maybe, or climbing a mountain?

我爬过一些山，但都只是很小的山，所以谈不上什么挑战。

I've climbed some mountains, but only very little ones, so it wasn't that challenging.

如果你喜欢身体上的挑战，也许你可以尝试艺术游泳，也就是以前所说的同步游泳。

If physical challenges are something you enjoy, maybe you should try artistic swimming or synchronised swimming as it used to be called.

这是一种结合了舞蹈和体操的特殊形式。

A combination of dance and gymnastics with a difference.

在艺术游泳中，运动员在水中跳舞的同时还要屏住呼吸。

In artistic swimming, athletes dance underwater while holding their breath.

你刚才说在水下跳舞？

Did you say dance underwater?

是的。

Yes.

游泳者在水中倒立跳舞，同时屏住呼吸。

Swimmers dance upside down in the water holding their breath.

正如我们将听到的，这是一种极其苛刻的运动，需要自律、耐力和多年的训练。

As we'll hear, it's an extremely demanding sport, which requires discipline, stamina and years of training.

和往常一样，我们还会学习一些有用的词汇和短语，你可以在我们的网站上通过测验和练习册进行练习。

As usual, we'll be learning some useful new words and phrases, and you can practise these with the quiz and worksheet on our website.

这就是bbc英语学习网。

That's bbclearningenglish.com.

太好了。

Great.

但在那之前，菲尔，我有个问题想问你。

But first, Phil, I have a question for you.

艺术游泳在1984年成为奥运会项目。

Artistic swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984.

但自那以后，哪个国家赢得的金牌最多？

But which country has won the most gold medal since then?

是a) 俄罗斯，b) 中国，还是c) 美国？

Is it a) Russia, b) China, or c) The USA?

哦，我觉得是b) 中国。

Oh, I think it's b) China.

好吧，我们会在本集后面揭晓正确答案。

Well, we'll reveal the correct answer later in this episode.

来自斯洛伐克的西尔维娅·索洛莫西奥娃是欧洲锦标赛奖牌得主。

Silvia Solomosziova from Slovakia is a European championship medalist.

她也是首位在社交媒体上拥有超过百万粉丝的艺术游泳运动员，这得益于她头朝下在水下行走的视频在网络上走红。

She's also the first artistic swimmer with over a million social media followers after videos of her walking upside down underwater went viral.

在此，她向BBC世界服务节目《对话》的主持人达什亚尼·内瓦盖姆解释了被称为‘套路’的不同类型的游泳舞蹈。

Here, she explains the different types of swimming dances called routines to Dashiani Nevagayim, presenter of BBC World Service programme, The Conversation.

如果你要向一个从未见过艺术游泳的人解释这项运动，你会如何描述它？

If you had to explain artistic swimming to someone who has never seen it, how would you describe it?

所以我觉得这取决于你看的是单人、双人还是团体项目，因为单人项目只有一个人，双人项目是两个人，而团体项目可以有八个人或十个人。

So I would say it depends if you're watching like a solo or duet or team routine because in solo, there's one person, in duet, there's two people, and in team routines there can be eight people or 10 people.

在团体项目中会有很多托举动作，实际上在表演中我们虽然面带微笑，但笑容背后我们可能已经累得不行了。

And in the team routines there's a lot of lifts, and actually in the routines we are smiling, but we are hiding behind the smile because we are actually maybe dying.

我们其实都缺氧了，但依然保持微笑，所以观众会觉得这很容易，实际上并非如此。

We don't have oxygen, so but we are smiling and people think that it's easy when it's actually not.

花样游泳的表演可以是单人项目，也就是仅由一人完成，也可以是双人项目，即由两人共同完成。

Artistic swimming routines are performed solo, meaning by just one person, or as a duet, which means by two people.

还有团队项目，其中一名游泳者会被举出水面。

There are also team routines where one swimmer is lifted up out of the water.

所有这些项目共同的特点是，它们在体能上极其艰难。

What all these routines have in common is that physically they are incredibly hard.

是的。

Yes.

艺术游泳项目是在水中倒立、屏住呼吸完成的。

Artistic routines are done upside down, underwater, without oxygen.

游泳者的动作需要像芭蕾舞者一样优雅。

The swimmer's movements need to be as graceful as a ballet dancer.

最重要的是，它必须看起来毫不费力，因为裁判会根据艺术表现打分。

And above all, it has to look effortless because judges award points for artistic expression.

西尔维娅说她用微笑来掩饰自己，这是一种习语，意思是通过表现出快乐的外表来隐藏痛苦。

Sylvia says she hides behind a smile, an idiom meaning to hide pain by presenting a happy outward appearance.

要在任何运动的顶尖水平上取得成功，都需要极大的奉献精神。

To succeed at the top level of any sport requires a huge amount of dedication.

西尔维娅每天训练八小时，每周六天，在她的教练兼母亲的指导下训练，而她的母亲也曾是艺术游泳冠军。

Sylvia trains eight hours a day, six days a week under the guidance of her coach, who's also her mum and a former artistic swimming champion herself.

在这里，她与达蒂亚尼·纳瓦尔纳加姆讨论了为了取得成功所做出的牺牲，此对话来自BBC世界服务节目《对话》。

Here, discusses the sacrifices she's made to succeed with Dathiani Navarnagham for BBC World Service's The Conversation.

由妈妈训练和指导，这容易吗？

How easy was it, being trained and coached by your mum?

我觉得一方面挺好的，因为你可以在家多练习。

I think it's good on one side, because you can practise more at home.

但另一方面，有时候也不好，因为在家时你本该放松休息，却还在训练。

But on the other hand, it's not sometimes good because you're training when you're at home, you're supposed to be, like, chilling.

某种程度上，你根本得不到喘息的机会。

There's no respite from it in a way, I guess.

是的。

Yeah.

我根本没有时间做其他任何事。

I didn't have time for anything else.

西尔维娅认为，由妈妈担任教练有好有坏。

Sylvia thinks there are good and bad things about being coached by her mum.

好处是她可以在家练习，但另一方面，她感觉好像一直在训练。

It's good because she can practice at home, but on the other hand, it feels like she's training all the time.

她使用‘另一方面’这个短语来表达这种对比的观点。

She uses the phrase on the other hand to show this contrasting opinion.

西尔维娅真正期待的是放松，这是一个表示休息或闲逛的俚语。

What Sylvia really looks forward to is chilling, a slang word meaning relaxing or hanging out.

对于年轻运动员来说，平衡运动、学业和朋友关系很困难，很难从训练中得到喘息的机会。

For young athletes, balancing sport with school and friends is difficult, and it's hard to get a respite from training.

喘息是指从困难的事情中暂时休息一下。

A respite is a temporary break from doing something difficult.

你

Do you

你知道吗，贝卡？

know what, Becca?

我觉得我需要从这些关于训练的谈话中休息一下。

I think I need a respite from all this talk about training.

现在，

Now,

什么

what

你问题的答案是什么？

was the answer to your question?

是的，菲尔。

Yes, Phil.

我问过你，自从艺术游泳成为奥运项目以来，哪个国家赢得的金牌最多？

I asked you which country had won the most gold medals for artistic swimming since the beginning of the Olympic sport?

我说我觉得是中国。

And I said I thought it was China.

嗯，你在地理上说得非常接近。

Well, you're very close geographically.

事实上是俄罗斯。

It is in fact Russia.

好的。

Okay.

让我们回顾一下我们学过的词汇，首先是solo，指一个人单独完成的事情，还有duet，指两个人共同完成的事情。

Let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with solo, something done alone, and duet, something done by two people.

习语‘hide behind a smile’的意思是通过表现出快乐的外表来隐藏痛苦的情绪。

The idiom hide behind a smile means to hide painful feelings by presenting a happy external appearance.

短语‘on the other hand’用于引入一个对比的观点或陈述。

The phrase on the other hand is used to introduce a contrasting opinion or statement.

‘Chilling’是俚语，意思是放松。

Chilling is slang for relaxing.

最后，‘respite’指的是从困难的事情中休息一下。

And finally, a respite is a break from doing something difficult.

再次提醒，我们的六分钟到了。

Once again, our six minutes are up.

但如果你想要练习本集或我们其他节目中学到的词汇，请访问我们的网站 bbclearningenglish.com，那里有测验、发音技巧等内容。

But if you'd like to practise the vocabulary you've learnt from this or any of our other episodes, then head over to our website bbclearningenglish.com for quizzes, pronunciation tips and much more.

感谢您的收听，再见。

Thanks for joining us and goodbye for now.

再见。

Bye.

六分钟英语。

Six Minute English.

来自 bbclearningenglish.com。

From bbclearningenglish.com.

如果有一个巨大的红色按钮能直接摧毁互联网，我会用额头撞下去。

If there was a big red button that would just demolish the Internet, I would smash that button with my forehead.

来自BBC，这里是《Interface》——一档探讨科技如何重塑你的一周和整个世界的节目。

From the BBC, this is the Interface, the show that explores how tech is rewiring your week and your world.

这与季度收益或科技评测无关。

This isn't about quarterly earnings or about tech reviews.

它关注的是技术实际上如何影响你的工作、政治和日常生活，以及

It's about what technology is actually doing to your work, your politics, your everyday life, and

人们使用互联网的各种奇特方式。

all the bizarre ways people are using the Internet.

在 bbc.com 或你收听播客的任何平台收听。

Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.