2024雅思听力材料-听力对话训练 31
雅思听力在考试中占据着重要的地位，时常用听力材料来磨耳朵可以不断巩固大脑的英语语言能力。以下是雅思听力材料，您可以结合MP3和下方的原文及翻译进行听力学习。
听力原文及翻译
A: So Gianne, have you thought of any ideas for the discussion session next week on technology and sport?
A：Gianne，你对下周关于科技和体育的讨论会有什么想法？
B: We have to cover more than one sport, don't we?
B：我们必须讨论不止一项运动，不是吗？
A: Yeah.
A：是的。
B: You know, we always think technology is about the future, but we could gather some ideas about past developments in sport.
B：你知道，我们总是认为科技关乎未来，但我们可以收集一些关于体育过去发展的想法。
A: Look at early types of equipment, perhaps. I remember reading something about table tennis bats once, how they ended up being covered with pimpled rubber?
A：也许可以看看早期的设备类型。我记得曾经读过一些关于乒乓球拍的文章，它们最后是如何被覆盖上颗粒状橡胶的？
B: Cause they were just wooden at first, I'd imagine.
B：因为它们一开始只是木制的，我想。
A: Yeah. In about the 1920s, a factory was making rolls of the rubber in bulk to something like horse harnesses.
A：是的。大约在 20 世纪 20 年代，一家工厂批量生产橡胶卷，做成类似马具的东西。
B: Really?
B：真的吗？
A: Yeah, and someone realized that it would make a perfect covering for the wooden bats.
A：是的，有人意识到它可以成为木制球棒的完美覆盖物。
B: So what about cricket? That's had a few innovative changes, maybe the pads they wear on their legs?
B：那么板球呢？它有一些创新的变化，也许是他们腿上穿的护垫？
A: I don't think they've changed much, but I'm just looking on the internet. And it says that when the first cricket helmet came in in 1978, the Australian batsman who first wore it was booed and jeered by people watching because it was so ugly.
A：我认为它们没有太大变化，但我只是在网上查了一下。据说，1978 年，当第一顶板球头盔问世时，第一个戴上它的澳大利亚击球手因为太丑而被观众嘘声和嘲笑。
B: Wow. Players have to protect themselves from getting hurt, I mean everyone wears one now.
B：哇。球员必须保护自己免受伤害，我的意思是现在每个人都戴头盔。
A: Hmm...unlike the cycle helmet.
A：嗯……不像自行车头盔。
B: Well, unless you're a professional. But you're right, many ordinary bikers don't wear a helmet.
B：除非你是专业人士。但你说得对，很多普通骑车人都不戴头盔。
A: Hey, look at these pictures of original helmet designs, this one looks like an upside down bowl!
A：嘿，看看这些原始头盔设计的照片，这个看起来像一个倒置的碗！
B: Yet the woman's laughing, she's so proud to be wearing it.
B：然而那个女人在笑，她很自豪能戴着它。
A: It says serious cyclists ended up with wet hair from all the hard exercise.
A：据说认真的骑车人最终因为所有的剧烈运动而头发都湿了。
B: I guess that's why they have large air vents in them now, so that their skin can breathe more easily.
B：我猜这就是为什么他们现在有大的通风口，这样他们的皮肤就可以更容易呼吸。
A: Okay, so we've done helmets. What about golf balls, or better still golf clubs? they've changed a lot.
A：好吧，我们已经做了头盔。那高尔夫球呢，或者更好的是高尔夫球杆？它们已经改变了很多。
B: Yeah. I remember my great grandfather telling me that because a club was made entirely of wood, it would easily break and players had to get another.
B：是的。我记得我的曾祖父告诉我，因为球杆完全由木头制成，所以很容易折断，球员必须另买一根。
A: There's no wood at all in them now, is there?
A：现在的球杆里完全没有木头了，是吗？
B: No, they're much more powerful.
B：不，它们的威力大得多。
A: The same must be true of hockey sticks.
A：曲棍球棒也一定如此。
B: Hmm...I don't think so, because players still use wooden sticks today. What it does say here though is that when the game started, you had to produce a stick yourself.
B：嗯……我不这么认为，因为球员现在仍然使用木棍。不过这里确实说的是，当比赛开始时，你必须自己制作一根球杆。
A: I guess they just weren't being manufactured. So, one more perhaps. What about football?
A：我猜它们当时还没有被制造出来。所以，也许再举一个例子。足球呢？
B: Well, I know the first balls were made of animal skin.
B：嗯，我知道最初的球是用动物皮制成的。
A: Yeah, they covered them with pieces of leather that were stitched together, but the balls let in water when it rained.
A：是的，他们用缝合在一起的皮革覆盖它们，但下雨时球会漏水。
B: Oh, that would have made them much heavier!
B：哦，那会让它们重得多！
A: That's right! You can imagine the damage to players necks when the ball was headed.
A：没错！你可以想象当球被顶出时球员的脖子会受到多大的伤害。
B: Oh, how painful that must have been!
B：那一定很痛！
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