X-sports[qh]
极限运动[qh]
Rick Stevenson, 16 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain. His friends and he go snowboarding every weekend. “It’s incredible,” he says, “The winds are so strong; the boards go 50 miles an hour.” His friend Laura Fields agrees, “No one goes skiing anymore. That’s for the old people.”[qh]
16岁的瑞克·史蒂文森在山上尽可能地多待一分钟。他和他的朋友们每周末都进行单板滑雪运动。“真是难以置信,”他说,“风这么大;滑板的速度是每小时50英里。”他的朋友劳拉·菲尔兹对此表示赞同:“现在再也没有人去参加双板滑雪运动了。那适合老人。”[qh]
Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports called extreme sports or X-sports. It has its own language, words such as “rage” and “energy”. It also has its own clothing, such as skin-tight bicycle suits in rainbow colors. And it’s not for the old or the easily frightened. Its philosophy is to get as close to the edge as possible.[qh]
瑞克和劳拉是极限运动或冒险运动新趋势的一部分。它有自己的语言,比如“愤怒”和“能量”。它也有自己的服装,比如彩虹色的紧身衣。它不适合老年人和容易受到惊吓的人。它的哲学就是尽可能地接近极限。[qh]