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去百度文库,查看完整内容>内容来自用户:冯卓2007 TEXT 1①If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the late months.②If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be ever more pronounced.如果你打算在2006年世界杯锦标赛上调查所有足球运动员的出生证明,那么你很有可能发现一个引人注目的巧合:优秀足球运动员更可能出生于每年的前几个月而不是后几个月。如果你接着调查世界杯和职业比赛的欧洲国家青年队的话,那么你会发现这一奇怪的现象甚至更明显。certificaten.证书【巧】certif(y证明)+ic(形容词后缀)+ate(作名词后缀表“物”)=具证明性质的东西→证书。【例】a leaving certificate毕业(肄业,离职)证书; academic certificate学历证书;I mustdiscard riches, the certificate of slavery.我必须抛弃财富这张奴隶证书。quirk[ kwə:k ]n.怪癖;急转;借口eliten.精英(中频词)来自elect选举,选出来的【巧】谐音:“爱理他”→“精英人士”每个人都爱理他。1、If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006