大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 bobsleigh
释义:
bobsleigh n. 长橇,雪橇
vi. 乘大雪橇;滑大雪橇比赛
[ 复数 bobsleighs 第三人称单数 bobsleighs 现在分词 bobsleighing 过去式 bobsleighed 过去分词 bobsleighed ]
例句:
For example, the popular bobsleigh team from the island of Jamaica did not qualify for the Olympics four years ago.
A bobsleigh is like a little car with a rounded nose made of fiberglass.
Then they jump onto the bobsleigh and continue racing down the track.
All start times and dates can be found on our bobsleigh schedule page .
Jamaica is really proud there's another guy trying to do what the bobsleigh guys did in 1988.
Bobsleigh is all about speed and power whereas I need a lot more endurance fitness for the Marines.
Her participation will evoke memories of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, whose Winter Olympics efforts inspired the film Cool Runnings.
Amateur daredevils on the nearby Cresta Run can almost match the bobsleigh speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour.
The result saw Germany become the first country to unite all three Olympic bobsleigh titles, having already captured the two-man and women's titles.
This week Ludmilla Engquist, an Olympic gold-medal hurdler in 1996 and still part of Sweden's potential Olympic bobsleigh team, confessed to taking anabolic steroids.
Politicians' ritual slanging matches should not be allowed to distract Canadians from weightier battles, such as the bobsleigh, the giant slalom or round-robin curling.
Lange's victory saw him become the first driver to take both bobsleigh gold medals at a single Winter Olympics since East German Wolfgang Hoppe in 1984.
Meanwhile, British reigning world champions Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke had a mixed training session ahead of the women's two-man bobsleigh event, which starts on Wednesday (0100 GMT).
"I actually watched 'Cool Runnings' and the bobsleigh team from 1988 and was inspired, " Williams, who refers to himself as "The Dream Chaser, " told CNN's Alpine Edge show.
At the foot of the mountains the world Bobsleigh Championship is taking place, giving motorists a momentary glimpse of the action as the bob hurtles above the ice wall.
Unfortunately Minichiello will miss the entire season - and the chance to defend her world crown - through injury but Paula Walker has stepped up to drive the GB1 bobsleigh.
It was the Navy which introduced Jackson to the ice sport five years ago when former bobsleigh driver and fellow Royal Marine Lee Johnston suggested he should give it a go.
By then more at ease with the northern winter, Mr Ondaatje was picked for the bobsleigh team that brought back Canada's only gold medal from the 1964 winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
British bobsleigh was certainly buoyed by Nicola Minichiello and Gillian Cooke's amazing feat at the 2009 World Championships, when they came away with the title, the first British success since 1965.
The track at Whistler, which is shared by the sports of luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, already has a reputation as one of the fastest - and most dangerous - in the world.
Gillian Cooke arrived at the Games with Nicola Minichiello as world champions in the two-woman bobsleigh, but their form had dropped and they sat in 10th after two runs and crashed in their third.
Bronze medallist Alex Coomber, the women's bobsleigh team, luger Mark Hatton, speed skater Debbie Palmer - and of course Fiona MacDonald's husband Ewan, were whistling and cheering every time our girls blasted the Swiss stone or added another point to the scoreboard.
