| The International Olympic Committee sanctioned an "International Winter Sports Week" at Chamonix, France, in 1924. This 11-day event, which included skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic Winter Games. |
1924年，在国际奥委会的支持下，法国加穆尼克斯举办了“国际冬季运动周”。为期11天的盛会成功的举办了滑雪、速度滑冰、花样滑冰、冰球及雪车等比赛，后来被称为第一届冬季奥运会。 |
Seventy-eight years after those first cold weather Games, the 19th edition of the Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake, USA, in 2002. |
在七十八年后，2002年美国盐湖城举办了第19届冬奥会。 |
| The last three Winter Olympics have been moved from the same year as the Summer Olympics to the middle of each 4 year Olympiad period. |
最后三届冬奥会的举办时间由于和原来的夏季奥运会同年，改为在奥林匹克周期的中间举行。 |
| Sports included in the Winter Olympics nowadays include bobsled, curling, ice hockey, luge, skating, skiing, ski jumping, and snowboarding. |
现代冬奥会项目包括雪车、冰壶、冰球、雪橇、滑冰、滑雪、跳台滑雪和单板滑雪等。 |
| Bobsledding involves descending down an icy track in a bobsled cart with two or four people sitting inside. |
雪车比赛是由二或四人乘坐在雪车内由冰道内滑下。 |
| Curlers slide handled stones hoping to lie shot close to the button using sweeping to assist. |
冰壶由队员将有柄的有石块滑向目标，可以将对手的石块扫开来帮助取胜。
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| Ice Hockey is played on a rink with 6 players on each team using sticks to try to shoot the puck into the goals. |
冰球比赛在冰球场内进行，每队六人组成，用棍击打小球入网得分。 |
| The luge has one or two people lying face up, flying feet first down an icy track. |
雪橇比赛由单人或双人仰卧在雪橇内，脚在前头在后从冰道内飞速滑下。
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| Skiing includes of the alpine events, downhill and slalom, freestyle, cross-country and biathlon. |
滑雪名手高山滑雪、高山滑降和高山回转、自由式滑雪、越野滑雪和现代冬季两项比赛。
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| All of these require wearing skis and using poles for balance and propulsion, with the biathlon requiring a rifle for shooting targets. |
所有这些项目都需穿着滑雪板并使用滑雪杖来保持平衡以推动前行，而现代冬季两项比赛刚需要携带步枪射击目标。 |
| Ski Jumping includes the 90 meter and 120 meter hill events where athletes attempt to fly for distances over 100m as well as the freestyle aerial event where athletes perform twists and somersaults and are scored according to difficulty and execution. |
跳台滑雪包括90米和120米斜坡跳跃，选手必须尽力飞跃至少100米，以及自由式滑雪，它根据运动员曲折及翻转的滑雪动作难度及完成质量来评分。 |
| Snowboarding, introduced only recently, has reders standing sideways on a single board performing slalom and halfpipe events. |
最新加入的单板滑雪比赛由选手侧立在滑板上进行回转和U型场地单板雪上技巧比赛。
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| Torino in Italy hosted the XX Olympic Winter Games in 2006, they were a big success. |
2006年意大利的托里诺举办了第20届冬奥会，比赛相当成功。 |
| Recent additions to the Winter Olympics have been the sports of skeleton and snowboarding. Skeleton is a face down, headfirst version of the luge, but actually predates both luge and bobsledding historically. |
最新加入的冬奥会项目除了单板滑雪还有钢架雪车。钢架雪车是选手俯卧在雪车里。头前脚在后，其历史实际止要比雪橇及有舵雪车更久。 |
| The increasing popularity of the Winter Olympics ensures that Olympic Games excitement is never too far away. |
冬奥会受到越来越多的欢迎，说明奥运会始终是人们关注的焦点。 |
