在名人的鼓舞下记单词-顾拜旦篇
皮埃尔•顾拜旦(Pierre de Coubertin 1863—1937)被公认为现代奥运之父,他本人同时还是著名的教育家、历史学家,曾任第二届国际奥委会主席。顾拜旦成功地把原来古希腊各个城邦之间举行的古奥运会变成了今天全世界大部分国家和地区都可以参加的现代奥林匹克运动会,同时他一生所倡导的奥林匹克精神和宗旨也在国际社会中发挥着无以替代的作用和影响力。原国际奥委会主席萨马兰奇评价顾拜旦的伟大功绩在于将体育运动提高到具有普遍价值的高度,并赋予奥林匹克运动发展的理论和实践。 值北京奥运会如火如荼进行之际,让我们一起来精读与这位“奥林匹克之父”有关的经典语言。 1 Swifter, higher, stronger. 2 All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. 3 For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. 4 For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. 5 Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. 6 If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. 7 In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. 8 In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty. 9 May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. 10 Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. 11 Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. 12 Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. 13 Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. 14 Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. 15 Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. 16 A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. 17 The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. 18 The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. 19 The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. 20 The Olympic Games were created for the exaltation of the individual athlete. |