Fairer Sex, Fairer Game 不準男子觀看的球賽
Fairer Sex, Fairer Game 不準男子觀看的球賽
By Jonathan Head, BBC News
More than 41,000 women and children came to see the game
媒體英語會帶大家一起學習 BBC 撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。
Background: 土耳其足協嘗試著舉辦了一次不同尋常的球賽，參賽球隊都曾經因為行為不佳而受到過懲罰，而觀眾則一律為婦女和兒童。這場在土耳其首都伊斯坦布爾舉行的 球賽氣氛非凡。參賽隊包括土耳其頂級球隊費內巴切足球俱樂部。
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Turkish football fans are famed for their raucous passion, and the Turkish Football Federation punishes violent behaviour by making the team play without an audience. But from this week they have moderated that rule, to allow women and children to watch sanctioned matches.
Last night the first such game, at the stadium of the top team Fenerbahce, was attended by an unexpectedly large crowd of 41,000 women and children.
The players said they approved of the changed atmosphere, where, instead of the usual war-like chanting, there were flowers and applause for both teams.
The Federation changed its rules because it's expecting more crowd trouble this season, following the exposure of a big match-fixing scandal.
Turkish television companies, which rely heavily on football for revenue, were worried they would lose subscribers if too many games were played in empty stadiums.
Glossary 詞匯表 (收聽發音, 請單擊英語單詞)
- to be famed for以什么而著名的
- raucous吵鬧的；喧囂的
- violent behaviour暴力行為
- to moderate修改，調整
- sanctioned受到懲罰的
- war-like chanting如同開戰一般的齊聲叫喊
- a match-fixing scandal內定比賽結果的丑聞
- to rely heavily on嚴重依賴于
- revenue收入
- a subscriber訂閱者，定購者
