交通管理专业就业前景:谁有英文的关于奥运的知识

Good afternoon!

Before I introduce our cultural programs, I want to tell you one thing first about 2008. You're going to have a great time in Beijing.

China has its own sport legends. Back to Song Dynasty, about the 11th century, people started to play a game called Cuju, which is regarded as the origin of ancient football. The game was very popular and women were also participating. Now, you will understand why our women football team is so good today.

Cultural events will unfold each year, from 2005 to 2008. We will stage multi-disciplined cultural programs, such as concerts, exhibitions, art competitions and camps which will involve young people from around the world. During the Olympics, they will be staged in the Olympic Village and the city for the benefit of the athletes.

Our Ceremonies will give China's greatest-and the world's greatest artists a stage for celebrating the common aspirations of humanity and the unique heritage of our culture and the Olympic Movement.

At last, I believe that Beijing will prove to be a land of wonders to athletes, spectators and the worldwide television audience alike. Come and join us.

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all.

译文:
你好! 在我介绍我们的文化节目之前, 我想首先告诉你一 件事大约2008 年。你将会去有了不起的时光在北京。中国有 它自己的体育传奇。回到宋朝, 关于第11 个世纪, 人们开始演奏赛 称Cuju, 被认为古老橄榄球的起源。这场比赛非常普遍并且妇女并 且参与。现在, 你了解为什么我们的女子橄榄球队今天很好。文化 事件每年将展开, 从2005 年到2008 年。我们将演出多被磨练的文 化节目, 譬如音乐会, 陈列, 艺术将涉及青年人世界各地的竞争对 手和阵营。在奥林匹克其间, 他们将被演出在奥林匹克村庄和这个 城市为运动员的目的。我们的仪式将给中国和世界的伟大人民, 最了不起的艺术家一个阶段为庆祝人类和我们的文化 和奥林匹克运动独特遗产的共同志向。最后, 我相信北京将被证明 是奇迹土地对运动员, 观众和全世界电视观众。来加入我.谢谢总统,谢谢大家.

The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and Winter games. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century.

The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, except in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to the World Wars.

A special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but from 1994 on the Winter Games and the Summer Games have been held two years apart.

Modern Olympics

After the initial success, the Olympics struggled. The celebrations in Paris (1900) and St. Louis (1904) were overshadowed by the world's fair exhibitions in which they were included. The so-called Intercalated Games (because of their off-year status, as 1906 is not divisible by four) were held in 1906 in Athens, as the first of an alternating series of Athens-held Olympics. Although originally the IOC recognised and supported these games, they are currently not recognised by the IOC as Olympic Games, which has given rise to the explanation that they were intended to mark the 10th anniversary of the modern Olympics. The 1906 Games again attracted a broad international field of participants — in 1904, 80% had been American — and great public interest, thereby marking the beginning of a rise in popularity and size of the Games.
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Growth

From the 245 participants from 15 nations in 1896, the Games grew to nearly 11,100 competitors from 202 countries at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The number of competitors at the Winter Olympics is much smaller than at the Summer Games; at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, 2,400 athletes from 77 countries competed in 78 events.

The Olympics are one of the largest media events. In Sydney in 2000 there were over 16,000 broadcasters and journalists, and an estimated 3.8 billion viewers watched the games on television. The growth of the Olympics is one of the largest problems the Olympics face today. Although allowing professional athletes and attracting sponsorships from major international companies solved financial problems in the 1980s, the large number of athletes, media and spectators makes it difficult and expensive for host cities to organize the Olympics.
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Membership

203 countries currently participate in the Olympics. This is a noticeably higher number than the number of countries recognised by the United Nations, which is only 191. The International Olympic Committee allows nations to compete which do not meet the strict requirements for political sovereignty that many other international organisations demand. As a result, many colonies and dependencies are permitted to host their own Olympic teams and athletes even if such competitors hold the same citizenship as another member nation. Examples of this include territories such as Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and Hong Kong, all of which compete as sovereign nations despite being legally a part of another country. Also, since 1980, Taiwan has competed under the name "Chinese Taipei", and under a flag specially prepared by the IOC. Prior to that year the People's Republic of China refused to participate in the Games because Taiwan had been competing under the name "Republic of China". The Republic of the Marshall Islands was recognised as a nation by the IOC on February 9, 2006, and will compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_games

The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games were first held at Olympia Greece as long as 776 B.C. They were held once every four years. The custom (传统) lasted for more than 1,000 years but died out under the ruler of Rome and stopped with the decline (衰弱) of ancient Greek civilization (古希腊文明).
Then in 1896 the games were held again. In that year, a Frenchman, Baron de Cowbertin, decided to try to start the game again. He wished to renew (恢复) those thoughts of excellence (美德) of body, mind and spirits shown in the ancient Greek Olympics. He did it, and the modern Olympics have grown with more and more nations and athletes taken part in. Because of the world wars they were not held in 1916 or in 1940 or in 1944. They had been regularly (有规律的) held since then.