排球(volleyball)是球类运动项目之一，球场长方形，中间隔有高网，比赛双方(每方六人)各占球场的一方，球员用手把球从网上空打来打去。排球运动使用的球，用羊皮或人造革做壳，橡胶做胆，大小和足球相似。

相关词汇

attack zone 进攻区

attacker n. 进攻手

back field player 后排队员

block n. 拦网

diversity n. 多样性

double fault 连续两次发球失败

drop the ball 吊球

floater n. 飘球

front (back) row 前(后)区

overhand (underhand， backhand) serve

上(下，反)手发球

overhand jump serve 跳发球

quick-set spike 快攻

serve/service n. 发球

set n. 传球

smash/spike n. 扣杀

spike off the block 打手出界

strategy n. 策略

teamwork n. 团队配合

umpire n. 主审

volleyball n. 排球

情景对话:

A: Good afternoon. You look so tired. What's wrong?

B: Oh, nothing. Our team was having a volleyball matchwith the Sunshine Team in the stadium.

A: Which team won?

B: Ours.

A: Oh, congratulations. Come on. Tell me some details ofthe match.

B: OK. As you know, the teamwork of our team iswonderful and we're really good at quick-set spikes.

A: Yes, I know. Did you score a lot on them?

B: At first, we did so. But, once they read our strategy, theymade several good blocks, because they had two excellentblockers.

A: How did you deal with it then?

B: We had to change our strategy. We paid attention toincreasing the diversity of our serves to take advantage oftheir weaknesses in sets.

A: Oh, I know you're very good at the overhand jump andfloater serves.

B: Yeah. We kept them off balance with our serves and ourattackers made some wonderful and powerful smashes.

And then, we took it.

A: Wow, you're so cool! Congratulations!

B: Thank you.

参考译文:

A:下午好。你看起来很累的样子.怎么了?

B:哦，没什么事。我们球队刚在体育悄和阳光队进行了一场比赛。

A:哪个队获胜了呢?

B:我们队。

A:哦，祝贺啊。来，给我讲讲比赛的细节吧。

B:好啊。你知道的，我们的团队配合很默契，而且.

我们还很擅长快攻。

A:是啊，我知道.你们因此得了很多分吗?

B:刚开始的时候是这样的。但是，由于对方有两名队员非常擅长拦网，他们一看出我们的策略.他们就打了几次出色的拦网得分。

A:那你们是怎么处理的呢?

B:我们不得不改变策略.我们注意增加发球的多样性，以此来利用对方的传球弱势得分。

A:哦，我知道你们非常擅长发跳发球和飘球。

B:是的.我们利用发球让他们阵脚大乱，然后，我们的进攻手们打了几个漂亮的大力扣杀.接着，我们就赢得了比赛。

A:哇，你们太酷了!祝贺你们啊!

B:谢谢。