人生如球场，何不have a go?

Original 2017-03-26 英语环球 英语环球NEWSPlus

一场球赛

昨天下午，李克强总理与澳大利亚总理特恩布尔在悉尼现场观看了一场澳式橄榄球比赛。

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has taken a break from his busy trip to Australia to attend an Australian Football League match with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney.

对阵双方分别是悉尼天鹅队与阿德莱德港队。

They sat together to take in the season opener featuring the Sydney Swans against Port Adelaide at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.

李克强表示，希望澳大利亚球队来中国比赛，增进两国的人文交流。

The Chinese Premier told media that he is looking forward to introducing the sport to Chinese fans.

主持人

李克强总理观看这场比赛有什么特别意义？

体育比赛最能够拉近人与人之间的距离，也经常成为给国与国外交方面加分的项目。上世纪70年代中美之间的乒乓外交仍让人津津乐道，而去年9月李克强访问加拿大期间身穿球衣与加拿大总理一同为冰球比赛开球的画面也令人记忆犹新。正如李克强23号在欢迎午宴上致辞时说，体育也是中澳不断深化的人文交流中不可或缺的一部分。

驻澳记者齐智

两条围巾

一个有趣的小细节，同学们注意到了吗？

总理同时戴上了代表两支球队的两条围巾，还开玩笑说真有点热！

I wear both of them even though the weather is not cold at all to show my love and support for both teams. I will cheer for you all no matter which side wins.

其实，早在两天前的欢迎午宴上，总理已经郑重承诺不会“选边站队”（he would not pick side）。

I will behave as a faithful spectator and loudly cheer for whichever team that scores the goal.

真爱粉们是不是想到了什么？“选边站队”感觉很眼熟啊！

没错，无论是今年两会的记者会，还是此次访问澳大利亚，总理都曾经谈到，中国不希望看到冷战思维下“选边站队”的事情发生。

China does not want to see the practice of picking sides, which smacks of the Cold War mentality.

Coming Soon

今年5月，上海将举行首场职业澳式橄榄球中国赛——对阵双方是阿德莱德港队和黄金海岸太阳队。

Two AFL squads, Port Adelaide and Gold Coast, will face off in Shanghai on May 14. That will be the first-ever match for premiership points to take place outside Australia and New Zealand.

CRI's Report

在这场正式的比赛到来之前，其实澳式橄榄球已经悄然进入中国了。

我们来自澳大利亚的记者 Christine Schindler 对此进行了采访。

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看完视频，我们还有录音报道一篇。

老规矩：先听完音频，再对照文稿哦！

Australian Rules, or Aussie Rules is an incredibly physical game, involves a rugby-shaped football, and a simple objective to kick the ball between two posts on a field.

It is a sport that originated in Australia but has now made its way to China. Zhang Hao, the Operations Manager at South China AFL is working to introduce the sport to Guangdong locals.

"When I came to Guangzhou no one played AFL, right now there are a few hundred. Even they graduate, they work, they still have interest to watch the game, it's not only a sport, it's a brotherhood, with time going it has already become part of life. "

Feti Meka, an Australian student in Beijing, and captain and club president of the Wudaokou Warriors, says playing Aussie Rules in China brings people together.

"I try so many times to really get family and friends back home to understand and appreciate know just how much of a great experience it is here in Beijing and to play the sport that I love back home, there's just interesting the diversity of people we get back coming through between all the students and the professionals here and all the and nationalities here. It's just incredible."

The growth is part of a promotional push by the Port Adelaide Football Club for Aussie Rules in China, and Premier Li's visit to the AFL game on Saturday is being seen as an endorsement of how far the sport has come.

In Premier Li's article in The Australian, the country's major newspaper, he wrote of how China truly admired the Australian people for their perseverance and courage to forge ahead.

Feti also highlights two authentic or 'true blue' Australian values when introducing the sport to his friends.

"It's all about having a go, the best things you can do today is find the ball is do you best to get it and have a go and do what you think is right. A game of AFL is won and lost on how much you want it. So I think that it's really definitive of Australian culture and Australians internationally, you pursue and have a go at things and push the boundaries, and really look to reap rewards to what they put in."

Although the sport is a niche Australian game, it is getting more attention in China, with China's major sports TV channel now broadcasting Australian games.

In May this year, two major AFL clubs will fly to Shanghai and play their first premiership points game. This game aims to bring yet more attention to the sport in China, and further build social ties between China and Australia.

Have a go - make an attempt at something; "I never sat on a horse before but I'll give it a go" (thefreedictionary.com)

小编原以为这会是一条科普贴，讲讲澳式、英式、美式橄榄球的异同啥的，没想到是一碗鸡汤——

不懂规则也没关系……总之，人生如球场，找准了目标，何不 have a go？

所以，你的心目中已经找准目标了吗？快来和大家聊两句。

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