新闻热词：跨栏赛跑 hurdling

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　　其实，只要告诉您“hurdling”是刘翔最引以为豪的一个词，即使不提供下面这幅图片，您也会猜出它就是大家常常提及的“跨栏赛跑”。日前，刘翔公开表示：他对卫冕2008年世界跨栏冠军充满了信心和决心。
　　China's Liu Xiang says he is determined to defend his Olympic 110m hurdling crown at the 2008 Beijing Games and fired out a warning to his main rival.
　　"I really want to be champion at the Beijing Olympics," the 23-year-old told the Beijing Times, "I couldn't quite dare to say it before, but today I finally have the guts to come out and say it," he added.
　　报道中的hurdling(跨栏赛跑)也可写作hurdle，属于田径项目的一种，指“参赛者在赛跑时必须连贯性地跨过一系列轻便、可移动的障碍”，如：He places first in the 400meter low hurdles.(他在400米低栏中名列第一。)
　　和前不久讲过的另一个体育词汇snooker(“斯诺克”台球)正好相反，日常生活中，snooker作动词时表示“阻挠;阻碍”，而hurdle作动词时则用来形容“克服(障碍)”，举个例子：
　　He overcame many hurdles to become a lawyer.(他克服无数困难才成为一名律师。)
　　另外，hurdle在日常生活中也可作名词“障碍;难关”，如： brush hurdle(树篱);economic hurdles(经济障碍);the last hurdle before graduation(毕业前的最后一关)。