首先看今日三个单词：
1.varsity
At many schools, sports are a big deal. Thousands of people flock to college football and basketball games, plus other sports. The members of the starting team are varsity players. Varsity players are the best players: that’s why they start, and they usually finish the game too. It can take a while for a player to make varsity status.
在很多学校里，体育可不是件小事。成千上万的人都会涌向体育馆观看大学橄榄球，棒球或者其他项目的比赛。首发退伍里的成员就是varsity队员。varsity里的队员是全校最棒的球员，这也是为什么是他们代表学校出战并终结比赛的原因。所以在varsity赢得一席是每位球员为之努力的事情。
例句:
She has been in the playoffs every year since she made the varsity.
自从加入校队后，她每年都参加季后赛。
2.deciduous
释意
Trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennials that shed their leaves for part of the year are categorized by botanists as deciduous. In temperate and polar regions, these plants are generally bare during the cold of winter. In other parts of the world, deciduous plants lose their leaves during the dry part of the year. The word deciduous can also be used to describe parts of the body, such as a deer's antlers or human baby teeth, that are cast off seasonally or at a particular period of development.
一些树木，灌木还有多年生草本植物在一年当中某个时段会脱落他们的叶子。植物学家呢就把这样的植物归为deciduous的。在温带或极地地区，这种植物在冬天通常是光秃秃的。还有世界上的一些地方deciduous的植物会在旱季脱叶。deciduous这个词还可以说身体的某个部分脱落，比如鹿角，人类幼儿的牙齿等，都会季节性地脱落或者在发育的某个阶段脱落。
例句:
Tree spotters may be pleased to spot the American larch, a deciduous conifer that isn't found much farther south.
树木监察员发现美洲松后很是欣喜，因为这种落叶针叶松在偏南点儿的地区并不多见。
3.shimmy
to do a dance in which you shake your hips and shoulders
（抖動臀部和肩部）跳西迷舞
She shimmied across the dance floor.
她跳著西迷舞穿過舞池。
shimmy
if a car shimmies, it has a very light shaking movement that is not the usual movement of the car.
搖擺；擺振（如果一輛車擺振，它有非常輕微的搖擺運動，並非其正常運動）
例句:
The cat also relies on long claws and highly flexible ankles to scramble among the trees - and even shimmy down tree trunks like a squirrel.
还依靠长长的爪子和高度灵活的踝关节在树与树之间攀爬，甚至还能像松鼠那样溜下树干。
今天看到一段描写橄榄球运动的文段，感觉很是生动。基本上对人类活动的描写成功与否基本取决于动词的选用，这段文本动词运用极为娴熟，拿来与大家赏析。
Bennett, who weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds, drove his shoulder into Beuerlein’s chest and heard what sounded like a balloon being punctured—“basically, the air going out of him.”Beuerlein landed on his back. He stood up, wobbly and dazed.“I saw mouths moving, but I heard no voices,”he later said. He had a concussion. After Bennett’s“vicious, high-speed direct slam,”as the Times put it, Alabama seized the momentum and won, 28–10.
本内特重达235磅,迎面就用肩膀撞向了Beuerlein的前胸，霎时听见Beuerlein的胸口像刺破了的气球一响，登时人仰马翻。“基本上是撞泄气了。” 他摇摇晃晃地站起来头晕目眩，“我能看到他们嘴巴在动但什么也听不见”，他之后回忆说。很显然，这是被撞成了脑震荡。《时代周刊》将本内特的这次擒抱形容为“凶残的全速直接撞击”。阿拉巴马州趁胜追击28-10拿下比赛。
赏析：
在说撞击的时候，用了一个drive his shoulder into his chest,一个简单的drive就把撞击的场景临摹地异常有临场感。紧接着撞击的声音怎么形容呢，不是用loud，sharp等等我们很容易想到的形容词来说，而是一个simile, like a balloon being punctured,哇，能想出这种比喻全靠对生活的留心观察，气球被突然刺破后那一声响，简直不能再传神，如果你曾经打过美式橄榄球或者看过超级碗的比赛的话，你就知道那种感觉是有多么酸爽了。紧接着就是被撞者landed on his back,瞬间人仰马翻的既视感有没有。然后他站起来，用了wobbly，dazed，摇摇晃晃头晕目眩，很是逼真对不对。最后一句，seized the momentum,直接翻译的话就是抓住势头，那便有一种一鼓作气趁胜追击的感觉。
我费了这么老大劲帮你们赏析，一定要学起来唷！
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