n[U] flipper, knife, tank, wetsuit [Date: 1900-2000; Origin: self-contained underwater breathing apparatus] the sport of swimming under water while breathing through a tube that is connected to a container of air on your back >scuba divern[C]
1. Because of my dark skin, kids at school called me names; I often got mugged coming home from school. My diving made me feel good about myself when my peers made me feel stupid. 由于我肤色黑,常常遭到学校里孩子们的辱骂。放学回家时常常遭到欺负。尽管同龄孩子们让我觉得自己不如别人,但跳水却使我对自己有了信心。
2. Balanced at the edge of a narrow white platform, I am about to jump head first into a hot new phase of Japan's leisure boom: indoor sky diving, without a parachute. 我在一块窄窄的白色跳板前端站稳,准备头朝下跳出去。这一跳将跳进日本休闲热中的一个崭新的热门项目:室内蹦极跳,不带降落伞的。
3. When I was only eighteen months old, I started gym classes. At ten, I explored doing gym exercises off the diving board at the pool. 我18个月大的时候便开始接受体操训练。十岁时我便在游泳池的跳板上练体操。
4. They like climbing, running, diving, swimming, lifting, jumping, and so on. 他们喜欢登山、赛跑、潜水、游泳、举重及跳高等。
5. This is the trick that permits indoor, parachute-free "sky diving". 这就是室内无伞蹦极跳得以进行的诀窍。
6. After that, I started training with Ron O'Brien, a well-known Olympic diving coach. 之后,我就跟着著名的奥运跳水教练罗恩·奥布赖恩训练。
7. AIDS forced me to stop diving; I had to quit diving professionally after the Olympics. 艾滋病迫使我不再跳水;这次奥运会之后,我只好退出职业跳水生涯。
8. And then there is Tokyo Roof, where I went sky diving indoors. 还有这家我玩室内蹦极跳的"东京屋顶"。
9. Pushing off the diving board with my legs, I lifted my arms and shoulders back, and knew immediately I would be close to the board and might hit my hands. I tried to correct myself as I turned, spreading my hands wide apart. 我用脚蹬跳板,臂膀向后举起,但马上意识到身体下落时可能会靠近跳板,碰伤手。转动身体时,我努力纠正动作,尽量把胳膊张开。
10. Which a predecessor of ours at the farm built in the meadow hard by the deepest pool for swimming and diving. 那船坞是农场一位前辈在一块草地上盖的,草地紧挨着一个专供游泳、跳水的深水池。