Lakewood's size may be unusual-it occupies a refurbished basketball stadium, and Pastor Joel Osteen's televised sermons are watched by 7m people each week-but its focus on the family is not.

雷克·伍德教堂的体量可能很不寻常——这里原本是个篮球馆，翻修之后，物尽其用成了教堂，每周有7百万人收看Joel Osteen牧师的电视布道，但布道的焦点转到家庭时就没这么多人关注了。

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Jing Song, an engineer who has overseen the building of a basketball stadium in four months, explains: "No one can finish work as quickly as we can, but there are too many difficulties."

工程师宋京一直负责一个篮球馆建设工程，需要在4个月内完工。他解释说：“没有人能像我们一样这么快完成工程，但我们遇到许多困难。”

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They saw the covered stadium, home of several famous basketball teams.

她们看到了有顶的大型体育场，是几支著名篮球队的驻地。

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Baseball, however, has now been dropped from the Olympics, and China has demolished the stadiums (leaving an adjacent basketball stadium).

ECONOMIST: Baseball in China

Forest City Ratner, currently engaged in a vast project for the Atlantic Yards on the Brooklyn waterfront, which includes a basketball stadium for the Nets designed by Frank Gehry, has made token changes in cooperation with community representatives, although questions remain about densities and scale.

WSJ: New York Stadium Deals: Good and Bad

Baseball woud be staged at the famous Yankee Stadium, tennis at Flushing Meadows, basketball at Madison Square Garden and the triathlon in Central Park.

BBC: Olympic X - most sports on two intersecting transport axes