Next to Association Football, the chief spectator sport in English life is horse racing. Their horse racing mainly takes place on working days and during working hours. The whole atmosphere of a race meeting still belongs in some ways to the eighteenth century with old divisions between upper and lower people. Every day people all over the country bet on the days races.
除了英式足球以外,英国生活中一项重要的观看运动便是赛马。 大多数的赛马比赛都在工作日和工作时间举行。而且,在很大程度上,赛马场上的气氛仍像18世纪那样,上流社会和普通平民是分开的。每天,全国各地都有人在当天的赛马比赛上赌上一把。
Although the British are so fond of watching horses racing, they are not very interested in being spectators at occasions when human beings race together. Remarkably few people are interested in bicycle racing. On the other hand, rowing, in fours or eights, occupies a leading place in the sporting life of schools and universities which have suitable water near by. It is watched from the river banks by vast crowds of spectators.
虽然英国人那么热衷于观看赛马,但他们对人类的赛跑却不感兴趣。喜欢自行车赛的人更是罕见。但另一方面,4人或8人的划船比赛却在邻近水域的学校和大学里占有很重要的地位,比赛时,河两岸会有大群的观众观看助阵。
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