篮球的由来

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Many people around the world love basketball. 世界上很多人都喜欢篮球。

But who do we thank for inventing it? 但我们要感谢谁发明了它呢？

A man named Dr. James Naismith. 一位名叫詹姆斯·奈史密斯博士的人。

In December 1891, Naismith was a graduate student in Massachusetts. 1891年12月，奈史密斯是马萨诸塞州的一名研究生。

His supervisor gave the students a challenge. 他的导师给学生们出了一个难题。

Invent an indoor game for the long winter. 发明一种适合漫长冬季的室内游戏。

Something easy to learn, but demanding of both mind 一种易学，但对脑力有要求

and body. 和体力。

Only Naismith took it seriously. 只有奈史密斯认真对待了。

He remembered a childhood game of tossing a rock at a target, and an idea formed. 他想起小时候玩的一种把石头扔向目标的游戏，一个想法形成了。

He nailed two peach baskets to the gym balcony, 他把两个桃子筐钉在体育馆的阳台上，

ten feet up, 十英尺高，

grabbed a soccer ball, 抓起一个足球，

and wrote a short set of simple rules. 并写下了一套简单的规则。

No running with the ball, no rough play. 不允许带球跑，不允许粗野犯规。

In those first games, 在最初的那些比赛中，

someone had to climb a ladder to fetch the ball out of the 每次得分后，都得有人爬梯子把球从

basket after every single score. 篮子里取出来。

The game spread astonishingly fast, becoming an Olympic sport by 1936. 这项运动传播得惊人地快，到1936年就成了奥运项目。

Not bad for two peach baskets and an afternoon's idea. 对于两个桃子筐和一个下午的想法来说，这可不赖。

Sometimes the things that change the world 有时候，改变世界的事物

begin as nothing more than one person solving a small, 最初不过是一个人解决一个小小的、

ordinary problem. 普通问题。