Top 5New Extreme Sports

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在生活节奏日益变快的当今社会，极限运动越来越受到人们的追捧，高空跳伞、滑板、跑酷、空中冲浪等运动已经越来越常见。骑着驼鸟赛跑、从高处跳下、用降落伞着地的翼装飞行……这些最新流行开来的炫酷极限运动你都听说过吗？

Some people say extreme sports are dangerous—and they’re probably right—but hey, if you’re going to get injured you might as well do it with style! The top three causes of head injuries last year were cycling, football and basketball. So let’s not pretend that regular sports are safer than extreme ones—it’s just that most folks can’t handle the rush1. rush: 热潮。! Here’s my top five ways to spice up2. spice up: 增添趣味。your sports life for 2014:

1. Pillow Fighting

Now, I started this list talking about head injuries and now I’m closing it with pillow fighting?Something of an anti-climax3. anti-climax: 反高潮，这里指“虎头蛇尾，小题大做”。,you say? Not even slightly! The Pillow Fight League of Toronto,Canada is the newest thing in combat sports and incorporates all sorts of wrestling and martial arts moves into your standard pillow- fight set-up and these do some serious damage!4. 加拿大多伦多的枕头大战联盟是格斗项目中出现的新事物，它的常规动作混合了所有类型的摔跤和武术动作，这些动作会带来某种程度的损伤。incorporate: 合并，结合。Now, currently the League is women only.

Hopefully this rundown has got you in the mood to branch out from your standard sports routine and try something new.5. rundown: 概要；branch out: 扩大活动范围。It might seem dangerous at first, but most of these extreme sports take place under professional supervision6. supervision: 监督，管理。.

2. Bird Man Suits

The bird man suit has a bunch of names: the flying squirrel suit, wingsuit, and bat-suit. From the names I can guess you know where I’m going…It’s a specially designed suit that lets you glide through the air at controlled speeds—adding a little extra to your usual skydiving experience.7. glide: 滑翔，滑动；skydiving: 跳伞运动，特技跳伞。This is probably the closest we’re going to get to flying until someone invents an anti-gravity8. anti-gravity: 反重力，反地心引力。engine and sticks it to a fly board. For bonus points combine this with BASE jumping and you’ve got some serious death-defying thrills on your hands.9. bonus point: 加分，红利点；BASE jumping: 定点跳伞，悬崖跳伞；death-defying: 挑战死亡的；thrill:震颤感，兴奋感。

3. Fly boarding

Now, I’m not really a water sports guy, so this is coming in at number three, but I’ve no doubt it’ll be topping out10. top out: 达到最高点。most people’s wish lists this year. Fly boarding is basically half way between parasailing and—every kid’s dream—a jetpack.11. parasailing: （由汽船、汽车等牵引在空中滑翔的）帆伞运动；jetpack:可以穿上身的喷射飞行器。Using a massively powerful water pump and some pretty sophisticated engineering the fly board will see you rocketing around lakes and coastlines at the back of a power boat.12. 利用一个超大功率的水泵和十分复杂的工程制造技术，你就可以在湖上或海岸边被汽艇牵引着升空翱翔。rocket: 飞快地移动，急速上升；power boat: 汽艇。

4. Ostrich13. ostrich: 鸵鸟。 Racing

Again you might be questioning what this is doing on a “New” list.That is, if you’re from South Africa or Jacksonville, Florida, USA—the two homes of ostrich racing. For the rest of us this extreme sport is worth attending just for the show with sometimes five or even ten ostriches on the go at a time and this is a seriously strange, potentially suicidal spectacle.14. on the go: 活动着，活跃着；suicidal: 有致命危险的，自取灭亡的；spectacle: 场面，景象。For the pro there’s the chance to ride an ostrich,although if you’re not into all that biting, flapping and kicking head injury potential then there are carts available for racing chariot-style too!15. pro: 赞成者；cart: （旧时的）马车，木车；chariot-style: 战车的风格。

5. BASE Jumping

No, the capitalisation isn’t to indicate the extreme awesomeness of this activity—it stands for Buildings, Spans, Earth.16. capitalisation: 资本化；indicate: 表明，表示；awesomeness: 非常棒，非常出色。Spans tends to mean bridges and earth tends to mean cliffs, but then the beauty of BASE jumping is that it’s basically just launching yourself from anywhere possible with a parachute ready to go. Although BASE jumping dates back to 1978 and has been doing the rounds quite a lot recently thanks to Internet clips, it’s still making the “New” list because every jump is a new possibility.17. do the rounds: 巡视，巡逻，此处指受到欢迎；clip:（视频）片段。If BASE jumping’s getting stale18. stale: 不新鲜的，走了味的。then you are getting stale, my friend.