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| Happy Valentine's Day!! Did you think we would forget? WordMaster is still at the Olympic Games, but we'll be talking about a competition that seems a fine match for this day celebrating romance. Every four years, the whole world seems to fall in love with the girl who wins a certain beautiful and dramatic Olympic event. This event is part of our WordMaster valentine to you! |
Two Olympic events in which athletes wear skates (that is, boots with a blade attached to glide along the ice) are figure skating and speed skating.
(Be careful: In English, we do NOT use the word "skate" (without "-ing") like the Japanese スケート to talk about the sport. "Skate" IS, however, used [as a noun] to mean the boot skaters wear and [as a verb] to mean the action of gliding over the ice in skates.)
オリンピックで選手がスケート靴をはいて競技をする種目の中には figure skating（フィギュアスケート）や speed skating（スピードスケート）があります。
注意：スケート競技について言う場合、英語では、日本語の「スケート」のように -ing をつけずに skate と言うことはありません。
名詞の skate は、スケート靴のことをさし、動詞の skate は、スケート靴をはいて氷上を滑るという意味になります。
| 1. | The women's singles figure skating finals are always one of the most popular tickets at the Olympics. | | | | 2. | Which do you prefer, pairs figure skating or ice dancing? | | | | 3. | I'd like to give my daughter figure skating lessons, but they're so expensive. | | | | 4. | To do well in speed skating you need very powerful legs. Most speed skaters have thighs like tree trunks. | | | | 5. | The short track speed skating competition will be held indoors, so weather won't be a problem. |
| We wish you a very special St. Valentine's Day!
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