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The Paralympics are a huge international sports meeting for athletes with disabilities — people who cannot use a part of the body in the usual way, or who have another kind of impairment the games are built around. They take place every four years, in the same city as the Olympic Games, and they start soon after those games end.
The Paralympics paralympics are a huge international sports meeting是一場盛大的國際運動賽事 for athletes with disabilities給身心障礙運動員參加 people人 who cannot use a part of the body in the usual way無法照一般方式使用身體某個部位 or who have another kind of impairment或有其他類型的損傷 the games are built around而賽事就是圍繞著這些狀況設計的 They它們 take place every four years每四年舉辦一次 in the same city as the Olympic Games跟奧運在同一個城市 and而且 they它們 start soon after those games end會在奧運結束後不久開始
You write it with a capital P because it is a name. Athletes are grouped so the racing is fair, and the sports include swimming, athletics, wheelchair basketball, and many more — not only sports for people who cannot walk.
You你 write it with a capital P要用大寫P來寫 because因為 it它 is a name是一個名稱 Athletes選手 are grouped so the racing is fair會被分組以確保比賽公平 and而 the sports項目 include swimming, athletics, wheelchair basketball, and many more包括游泳、田徑、輪椅籃球等等 not only sports for people who cannot walk不只是給不能走路的人比賽的項目
The name looks as if it must mean “the Olympics for paralysis,” and that is one old reading of para-; the organisers themselves prefer to hear it as “parallel Olympics”: another games, running beside the Olympics, not a lesser copy. People say “the Paralympics” the way they say “the Olympics”; the adjective is Paralympic.
The name這個名字 looks as if it must mean看起來好像一定是指 “the Olympics for paralysis,”「給癱瘓者的奧運」 and而 that這 is one old reading of para-是para-這個字首的一種舊解讀 the organisers themselves主辦單位自己 prefer to hear it as比較希望大家理解成 “parallel Olympics”「平行的奧運」 another games另一場賽事 running beside the Olympics跟奧運並行舉辦 not a lesser copy而不是比較差的複製品 People人們 say “the Paralympics”說「the Paralympics」的方式 the way they say “the Olympics”就跟說「the Olympics」一樣 the adjective形容詞 is Paralympic是Paralympic
組成A blend of para- (as in paraplegia, or — as the International Paralympic Committee prefers — parallel) + Olympics.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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hobbieslifestylesportsSynonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
- At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.
- The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. […] The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians from 165 nations compete in London in sports including wheelchair racing, athletics, blind football and wheelchair rugby, and pit their wills against the finest talents in the world.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。