Intermediate - Olympic Medals (C0424)

你还记得上届奥运会美国拿了多少块金牌？
nǐ hái jìde shàngjiè àoyùnhuì Měiguó ná le duōshao kuài jīnpái ？
Do you remember how many gold medals the U.S. got in the last Olympics?

35块。
sānshíwǔ kuài 。
35.

我记得中国拿了32块，排在第二，是不是啊？
wǒ jìde Zhōngguó ná le sānshíèr kuài ，pái zài dìèr ，shì bu shì ā ？
I remember that China got 32. They came in second, didn’t they?

没错。不过银牌和铜牌比俄罗斯少。
méicuò 。bùguò yínpái hé tóngpái bǐ E2luósī shǎo 。
That’s right. But they got less silver and bronze medals than Russia did.

大家都说跳水是中国队的强项。那他们一共拿了多少块金牌呀？
dàjiā dōu shuō tiàoshuǐ shì Zhōngguó duì de qiángxiàng 。nà tāmen yígòng ná le duōshao kuài jīnpái yā ？
Everyone says that diving is the Chinese team’s strength. So, how many gold medals did they get altogether?

好像是6块吧。
hǎoxiàng shì liù kuài ba 。
I think it was six.

上届的奥运会中国队在田径上也取得了很好的成绩。一名中国选手还打破了欧美人一直垄断的奥运男子110米栏的记录，实现了零的突破。
shàngjiè de àoyùnhuì Zhōngguó duì zài tiánjìng shàng yě qǔdé le hěn hǎo de chéngjì 。yī míng Zhōngguó xuǎnshǒu hái dǎpò le Oūměi rén yīzhí lǒngduàn de àoyùn nánzǐ yībǎiyīshí mǐ lán de jìlù ，shíxiàn le líng de tūpò 。
In the last Olympics, the Chinese team also had a lot of success in track and field. One of the Chinese competitors even broke the record long dominated by the Europeans and Americans in the men’s 110 meter hurdles, achieving a real breakthrough.

我知道，那是刘翔。奥运会结束以后，刘翔又在一些国际比赛中拿了很多冠军。现在他可是很多中国人的偶像呢。
wǒ zhīdào ，nà shì Liú Xiáng 。àoyùnhuì jiéshù yǐhòu ，Liú Xiáng yòu zài yīxiē guójì bǐsài zhōng ná le hěn duō guànjūn 。xiànzài tā kě shì hěn duō zhōngguórén de ǒuxiàng ne 。
I know; that was Liu Xiang. After the Olympic Games were over, in other international competitions Liu Xiang again went on to win quite a few victories. He is now the idol of a lot of Chinese people.

对了，是不是有一个运动员拿了6块金牌？
duìle ，shì bu shì yǒu yī ge yùndòngyuán ná le liù kuài jīnpái ？
By the way, wasn’t there one athlete who got 6 gold medals?

是啊，他是美国的游泳运动员。
shì ā ，tā shì Měiguó de yóuyǒng yùndòngyuán 。
Yeah, he was an American swimmer.

Vocabulary

奥运会	Aòyùnhuì	Olympic Games
金牌	jīnpái	gold medal
排	pái	to place
银牌	yínpái	silver medal
铜牌	tóngpái	bronze medal
跳水	tiàoshuǐ	diving
强项	qiángxiàng	strength
田径	tiánjìng	track and field
选手	xuǎnshǒu	athlete
打破	dǎpò	to break
垄断	lǒngduàn	to monopolize
110米栏	yībǎiyīshí mǐ lán	110 meter hurdles
记录	jìlù	record
突破	tūpò	breakthrough
偶像	ǒuxiàng	idol
奥运系列	Aòyùn xìliè	Olympics series
世界杯	shìjièbēi	World Cup
世博会	shìbóhuì	World Fair
固定	gùdìng	fixed
举办	jǔbàn	to hold
形象	xíngxiàng	image
称之为	chēngzhīwéi	call it…
排队	páiduì	queue, stand in a line
项目	xiàngmù	item, event
广泛地被使用	guǎngfán de bèi shǐyòng	be used widely
常用的搭配	chángyòng de dāpèi	commonly used collocation
表现	biǎoxiàn	show; display
金融	jīnróng	finance
崇拜	chóngbài	to adore