Unit 2 Sports Culture（Word教参）-【优化指导】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（译林版2020）

Actions do not fade, but uses do not fade. Life lies in movement. 动则不衰，用则不退。生命在于运动。 [学海淘金] 主题语境——人与社会。龙舟(或称龙船)上画着龙的图形或把舟做成龙的形状。龙舟的历史已相当久远，它的起源仍然是一个谜。 Dragon­Boat Race Dragon­boat, as the term suggests, is a boat carved① like a dragon. Dragon­boat race has a long history, and it is held annually on the Dragon­boat Festival, namely the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Someone holds that the race is to memorize Qu Yuan, a famous writer, a man of Chu in the period of the Warring States②. He had been a senior official, but hated the crafty sycophants③ who were in the important positions, so he was squeezed out by them and exiled. He plunged into the River of Miluo and was drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC. It is said that the local people organized spontaneously④ to rescue him by rowing boats. This action has become a common practice and developed into the Dragon­boat sports. [词海拾贝] ①carve v．雕刻；切割 ②the Warring States战国时期 ③the crafty sycophants奸佞小人 ④spontaneously adv.自发地；自然产生地 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$