板球

A poll conducted by one of the Games sponsors found that almost 70 percent of city-bred Indians will closely follow the action in Beijing despite a clash with India's cricket tour of Sri Lanka.

据某奥运赞助商进行的民意调查显示，在北京奥运会比赛与印度和斯里兰卡的板球对决相冲突的情况下，有近70%的印度城市居民表示会密切关注北京奥运会。

While he was away, his wife opened the pot to peek at the special cricket that promptly jumped out and was instantly eaten by a cockerel outside.

虽然他不在，他的妻子打开了锅，以展示在特别板球的迅速跳出来，并立即吃了公鸡外面。

Cricket's great expansion came in colonial times.

这不奇怪，板球的黄金岁月在殖民时期。

So cricket is played, for example, in India and Pakistan and it survives on the Greek Island of Corfu.

例如，在印度和巴基斯坦，甚至在希腊的科孚岛，人们都爱玩板球。

I love cricket, and I wanted to do something for my country because I come here, he said.

我喜欢板球，我想为我的国家做一些事情，因为我来这里，他说。

I don't like cricket .

我不喜欢板球。

So far I didn't find any good cricket games.

到目前为止，我没有发现任何良好的板球比赛。

Do you know the laws of cricket?

你知道板球的规则吗？

Luckily, it was only cricket scores,' he said.

幸运的是，这里说的只是板球比赛。

Yes, I have played cricket once.

是， 我打过一次板球。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。