What accounts for the sudden meteoric rise in a sport which, after all, is played best by people who are unusually tall?

这项毕竟还是由高得出奇的人打得最好的运动是如何迅速兴起呢？

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During my freshman year in high school my parents and I decided that it was in my best interest to partake in a sport.

高中一年级的时候，我和父母决定参加一项体育活动，这应该是我最感兴趣的事了。

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Even in a sport where success is measured in thousandths of a second, everything in top fuel happens in a blink of the eye.

即使是在冠军夺冠也要用时成千上万秒的比赛中，在眨眼的一刹那发生。

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Today's Latino baseball players say Roberto Clemente opened doors for them to reach their goals in a sport that had not always treated them equally.

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I'm also starting up a Quidditch team at NYU which is a fictional sport in Harry Potter,

我也在纽约大学组建了魁地奇球队，在《哈利•波特》里面这是个虚幻的运动，

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It's a curious sport in that... well, it started (when) surfers went to surf on land.

这是一项很有趣的运动，因为……嗯，它是从冲浪选手上陆地冲浪开始的。

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Woods, multiracial but identifiably black, triumphed in a sport dominated by upper-class white men.

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But we no longer find that kind of transaction morally acceptable in a sport.

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In a sport where the talk now is all of preparation, his advice is a little surprising.

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