體育美語：Hockey 冰球（美語聽力）VOA (ZT) http://www.freexinwen.com/chinese/soundse/se028.m3u Y: 今天我和Marc, Patrick一起看冰球比賽。Hi Mark, hi Patrick. M: Yeh, hey Yang Chen. Thanks for inviting me to this hockey game, Yang Chen. P: Yeh. So 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. 我其實不太懂冰球。 M & P: Of course M: Oh, I think you are just being modest. P: Believe me. She is not being modest. Look! Our team just scored! Y: 為什麽每個人都往冰場扔帽子? M: Because that player just scored a hat-trick. Y: Hat-trick? 有人變魔術? M: There is no magician. It means one player scores three goals in a game. When that happens, everybody throws their hat on the ice. Y: 噢，有一個隊員進三個球，我們就說他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. 剛才一個隊有五個隊員，另一個隊有四個。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 penalty box. So the other team has an extra player and is on a power play. Y: 犯規的隊員要坐到受罰席。那麽另一個隊就是on the power play, 比對方多一個人，所以實力更強。I have another question. M: Yang Chen, now I do realize you know very little about hockey. P: Let me tell you, 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 sport, because Mahjong is not a sport. Words and phrases 1. Hat-trick It means one player scores three goals in a game. When that happens, everybody throws their hat on the ice. 2. power play If a player breaks a rule, he has to sit in the penalty box. So the other team has an extra player and is on a power play. 3. Hockey 冰球 4. Stanley Cup From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs champion. It has been referred to as The Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as Lord Stanley's Mug or Lord Stanley's Cup. The Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made each year; Cup winners keep it until a new champion is crowned. It is unusual among trophies, in that it has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved on its chalice. The original bowl was made of silver and has a dimension of 18.5 centimeters (7.28 inches) in height and 29 centimeters (11.42 inches) in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the original bowl, is made of silver and nickel alloy. Today, it has a height of 89.54 centimeters (35.25 inches) and weighs 15.5 kilograms (34.5 lb). Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892 by then Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. In 1915, the two professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other for the Stanley Cup. After a series of league mergers and folds, it became the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926. The Cup later became the de jure NHL championship prize in 1947.
