阅读_2000_Basketball_篮球起源

Basketball is still a young game. It is over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was troubled with its boy student.

篮球仍然是一项年轻的运动。它有一百多年的历史。1891年冬天，某所大学的男生们让校方很困扰。

The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors.

由于天气极其恶劣，学生们不得不待在室内。

Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into fight from time to time.

由于无法像往常一样在户外进行体育运动，他们情绪低落，有些人甚至时常发生斗殴。

 

Finally one of the teachers at the college,J.E. Naismith, was asked to invent a new game for the students.

最终，该校教师J·E·奈史密斯受命为学生发明一项新运动。

It was not an easy job because such a gamehad to be played indoors and the court was not very large.

这是个艰难的任务，因为这项运动必须在室内进行，而场地面积十分有限。

 

Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball.
奈史密斯经过数日思考，发明了一种球类运动。这是一项节奏快、对抗激烈的运动，需要频繁跑动和传球。

It was a game played between two teams.To make a score,the ball had to be thrown into a basket tenfeet high above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket.
比赛在两支队伍间进行。得分方式是将球投进挂在墙上、离地十英尺（约3米）的篮筐。球场两端各设置一个这样的篮筐。

At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he couldnot find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead That's how the game got its name.
起初，奈史密斯本打算让学生把球投进箱子里。由于找不到尺寸合适的箱子，他只能用水果篮代替。这项运动由此得名。

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Basketball is still a young game. It is over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was troubled with its boy student. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors. Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into fight from time to time.

Finally one of the teachers at the college,J.E. Naismith, was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a gamehad to be played indoors and the court was not very large.

Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was a game played between two teams.To make a score,the ball had to be thrown into a basket tenfeet high above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket.

At first, Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he couldnot find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead That's how the game got its name.