【媒體英語】Paralympic workshop 殘奧會維建中心

　　媒體英語會帶大家一路學習 BBC 撰稿人正正在報讲世界大年夜事時經常应用到的單詞戰短語。

　　倫敦殘奧會期間最劳碌的處所是維建輪椅跟金屬假肢的維建中心。已經有1700多名掽到緊慢問題的運動員光顧此天，尋供緊缓幫助。BBC記者Alex Capstick 有以下報講：

　　Just outside the athletes village a room which is a hive of activity.

 

Paralympians need reliable equipment. This is where they come when a vital piece of apparatus breaks during competition. A quick fix can mean the difference between success and failure. Technicians are busy welding wheelchairs and filing running blades. The most common repair is for punctured tyres. And nobody, no matter how complex the problem, is turned away.

　　Russell Pizzey manages the workload. Wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby presents his biggest challenges. Those sports involve lots of contact and, in rugby especially, the players try to smash each other to bits.

　　Russell Pizzey, from Ottobock:

　　They definitely come in on quite a number of visits. Not just one visit only, and again it」s depending on the game, the amount of impacts they take during that game. So again we can see big repairs to wheels, let alone the frames.

　　London is the 12th Paralympics for Ottobock, the company which runs the workshop. The athletes don't pay a thing, and so far at these Games those representing more than 120 countries have sought its help.

　　They」ve been frantically busy ever since they opened their doors at the Olympic Park, and they say the figure of nearly 2200 repairs, which were carried out in Beijing, is set to be surpassed.

　　Quiz 聽力測試

　　True or false: The repair workshop is playing a very important role at the Paralympic Games.

　　What has been the most common repair?

　　Are Paralympians charged for the repair at the workshop?

　　What does the word 'surpass' mean，日譯漢?

　　Glossary 辭匯表

　　· a hive of activity繁忙之天

　　· vital至關重要的

　　· complex複雜的

　　· workload事件量

　　· challenges瘔難，挑戰

　　· sought尋供

　　·，證書翻譯; frantically急不可待地

　　· surpassed超過