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[00:03.47]第77课  电视日:武术
[00:06.95]Have you ever wondered how some people can break bricks with their bare hands?
[00:09.99]你是否感到奇怪有人能徒手劈砖?
[00:13.04]People who can do this kind of thing are experts in karate.
[00:15.84]能这么干的人是空手道专家,
[00:18.65]They are called "Karatekas"
[00:20.55]人称"空手道武术师".
[00:22.44]In our programme today
[00:23.98]在我们今天的节目中,
[00:25.52]we tried to find out how Karatekas could do such things.
[00:28.12]我们要了解空手道武术师如何能做到这些.
[00:30.72]We wanted to learn if they were especially strong
[00:32.91]我们想知道他们是否特别强壮.
[00:35.11]and we got some surprising answers!
[00:36.81]我们得到出人意料的回答
[00:38.50]Believe it or not,Karatekas aren't stronger than ordinary people--
[00:41.46]信不信由你,空手道武术师并不比普通人强壮--
[00:44.41]they just have more courage!
[00:46.16]他们只是更富有勇气.
[00:47.91]A Karate expert strikes hard objects like bricks or plates
[00:51.21]空手道武术师击碎砖头,碟子这类硬东西
[00:54.52]with the small bone in his wrist,opposite the thumb.
[00:56.97]用手腕上一块正对着大拇指的小骨.
[00:59.43]Speed is the essence of this sport.
[01:01.53]速度是这项运动的关键.
[01:03.63]But the strange thing is that untrained men
[01:05.83]但奇怪的是未经训练的人
[01:08.02]can break hard objects in the same way just as well as Karatekas.
[01:10.92]用同样方法也能像空手道武术师一样把硬物击碎.
[01:13.82]Of course,Karatekas practise a lot
[01:15.96]当然空手道武术师大量训练,
[01:18.11]and they have a layer of hard skin round their wrists.
[01:20.46]手腕一圈有一层厚厚的老茧.
[01:22.81]Though they have this advantage over ordinary people,
[01:24.86]虽然在这方面他们比普通人具有有利条件
[01:26.91]it's basically just a question of will-power
[01:28.96]不过基本上还是一个意志的问题
[01:31.01]--at least that's what you can tell your mother
[01:33.36]至少你可以这样对你母亲说,
[01:35.71]after you've experimented on a few dinner plates!
[01:38.06]在几个碟子上练上几手以后.