地道美语听力播客587:比赛排名

Irene: How is your team doing in the standings?

艾琳：你的团队排名如何?

Kent: They’re seeded sixth and they’re in a bracket with one of the best teams in the tournament. Our team has already lost to them.

肯特：他们排第六名，并且他们将要和这次比赛中最好的团队之一进行对决。还没比赛，我们的队伍就已经输了。

Irene: I thought it was a double-elimination tournament.

艾琳：我一直认为这是双淘汰比赛。

Kent: It is. That’s the only reason they’re not out of contention for the title.

肯特：是双淘汰赛。这是他们没有失去争夺冠军机会的唯一原因。

Irene: Why did the organizers get rid of the round-robin rounds?

艾琳：为什么组织者要除去循环赛呢?

Kent: I think it’s because they wanted to cut down on the number of games overall. I’m not sure.

肯特：我想他们是想减少全部比赛的数量，当然我也不确定。

Irene: Your team is the defending champion. What happened this year? Why aren’t they ranked higher?

艾琳：你的团队是上届冠军，今年是怎么了?为什么他们没有获得更高的排名?

Kent: They didn’t have a very good season. There were a lot of injuries, and as the coach, I had some run-ins with a couple of the new players. Let’s just say we had some clashes in personality.

肯特：现在对于他们并不是非常好的赛季，队伍里有很多人都受伤了，而且作为教练，我还插入了三两个新队员，我们只是说我们在性格方面有些不合。

Irene: Isn’t there a game this afternoon?

艾琳：今天下午没有比赛吗?

Kent: Yeah, but I have to feed my team first. They won’t play until they get what they want.

肯特：没有，但是我得去犒劳一下我的队员了，直到他们得到他们想要的他们才会去打比赛。

Irene: What do they want?

艾琳：他们想要什么?

Kent: Ice cream. Who knew six-year-olds could be so demanding?

肯特：冰淇淋。谁会想到六岁的孩子们要求这么高。