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X-sports
极限运动
Rick Stevenson, 16 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain. His friends and he go snowboarding every weekend. “It’s incredible,” he says, “The winds are so strong; the boards go 50 miles an hour.” His friend Laura Fields agrees, “No one goes skiing anymore. That’s for the old people.”
16岁的瑞克·史蒂文森在山上尽可能地多待一分钟。他和他的朋友们每周末都进行单板滑雪运动。“真是难以置信，”他说，“风这么大；滑板的速度是每小时50英里。”他的朋友劳拉·菲尔兹对此表示赞同:“现在再也没有人去参加双板滑雪运动了。那适合老人。”
Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports called extreme sports or X-sports. It has its own language, words such as “rage” and “energy”. It also has its own clothing, such as skin-tight bicycle suits in rainbow colors. And it’s not for the old or the easily frightened. Its philosophy is to get as close to the edge as possible.
瑞克和劳拉是极限运动或冒险运动新趋势的一部分。它有自己的语言，比如“愤怒”和“能量”。它也有自己的服装，比如彩虹色的紧身衣。它不适合老年人和容易受到惊吓的人。它的哲学就是尽可能地接近极限。
