英语翻译1.Of all the Olympic sports that have come and gone - an

英语翻译
1.Of all the Olympic sports that have come and gone - and there have been more than you might think - I believe my favourite would have to be the event known as plunge for distance.A feature of the 1904 Games in St Louis,it required competitors to dive into a pool from a standing position and,while maintaining a posture of perfect rigidity,to float as far as they could for as long as they could without drawing breath.
2.I don't know whether the competitors took turns at this or went in all at once,but I would like to think the latter as it presents such an agreeable image of a pool full of inert bodies drifting about in a more or less random manner,gently bumping into the sides and each other.In any case,even by the extremely accommodating standards of the early Olympics,the sport was deemed too ridiculous to be sustainable and was discontinued at the next Games.
3.Also failing to last long in Olympic competitions were club swinging,croquet,rope climbing,tug of war,live pigeon shooting,motor-boat racing,two-handed javelin throw and the 100m swim for sailors,which featured at the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 and then was heard of no more.I mention all this because I have just been reading about the first days of the modern Olympics and it's hard not to be struck by the openness,the village-fête-like simplicity,of the Games then compared with now.
4.In those days,Olympics were small-scale affairs - Athens had barely 200 competitors,as against more than 10,000 at Sydney - and so easygoing that spectators could actually hope to take part.The entrants in the 1904 marathon,for instance,included two Zulu dancers who happened to be in St Louis on a cultural exchange and entered on a whim.Supervision was likewise a trifle casual.Michel Théato,the winner of the 1900 marathon in Paris,is reputed to have used his knowledge of the city's geography to introduce a number of useful shortcuts down back alleys and side lanes.
5.Even more enterprising was the American Fred Lorz,who completed the 1904 marathon looking uncannily fresh.It turned out that he had accepted a lift from a passing motorist,who had dropped him just outside the stadium after conveying him 11 miles.I think it is safe to say that we will not see those days again.
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1.奥运会上所有的运动走马观花似的展示于眼前,体育运动的式样多过你的想象.而我最喜欢的运动,被称为plunge for distance的一项水上运动(注释:plunge for distance被百科全书列为和跳水一类的水上运动,却没有正式的中文注解,因为中国似乎只参加过一界这项运动)这项运动比赛曾于1904年,(地点于美国密梳里洲的)圣路易司城举行过.比赛要求参赛者站立池边,跳如池中,与此同时必须保持一个完美的标准直线,试着一口气在水上漂浮,漂浮的最远,坚持的时间最久而没有换气的选手获胜.
2.我不知道参赛者是一个一个进场,还是全部一起进场,但凭我的想象,我觉得呈现眼前的,就如一幅这样可以让大家认同的画面.一个游泳池中满是参赛者,随意的在池中泡着,或转换着姿势,轻巧的到池边或者和别的参赛者插身而过.不管如何,就算是这种特别的有适应性的标准,早期的奥运会,这种运动显示出这种非常荒谬,难以保持和持续到下一期奥运的情况.3.也未能持续很长时间在奥林匹克竞赛是俱乐部,绳子荡来荡去,槌球攀爬、拔河、活鸽子射击,艘摩托艇赛车,双手标枪和米游了水手,在第一届现代奥运会在1896年雅典,然后就听见一去不复返了.我提到的这些因为我刚才读到第一次现代奥运会的日子,很难不被公开,那么比起现在,村庄宴请喜欢简单的游戏.
4.在那些日子里,奥运会是小规模的事务,雅典仅有200个对手,作为对超过10,000人在悉尼-因此随和,观众可以希望参与其中.参赛者在1904年马拉松,例如,包括两个怪物舞者们碰巧在圣路易斯号在一种文化交流和进入.监督也有点漫不经心的.米歇尔Theato,1900年,在巴黎的马拉松比赛被运用他的知识城市地理引进大量的有用的快捷方式下侧背小巷、车道.
5.更进取是美国人,他完成了弗雷德有人看惊异新鲜.1904年马拉松原来他已经接受了从一个开车经过,他只是在体育馆外掉后,他11公里.输送我认为它是安全的,说,我们不会看到这些天了.