football

1 Oh, I probably forgot to tell you—I’m assistant head football coach at the Andrew J. McCorkle High School.

2 But I don't want to think about what would happen if I asked Mom to play football again.

3 A week later, on October 15, Richard Nixon sat in the White House watching football on television while thousands of protestors circled the building.

4 Except for the football boys, our audience was festive.

5 Then Mr. Brisbane said, “Just think, last year after Thanksgiving dinner, Jason and I threw the football around the backyard. Now I’m stuck here and Jason is in Tokyo.”

6 The factory was in an industrial area outside of Mutare, as big as a football field.

7 Central was playing its last football game of the season.

8 We girls didn’t really know football terms—American or any other kind—but we understood our teacher.

9 “You don’t schedule a football practice on the morning of your team captain’s funeral.”

10 It would have been un-American not to love the best football player.

11 So we finish our routine and hit the weights before the football team enters the weight room and starts grunting and trying to see who can bench-press the most L-B-S-es.

12 “It’s just another football team to me now. It’s got a win-ning tradition. It’s got good players. But I got other things to do besides football and getting people psyched up. . . .”

13 By three o’clock the sun had swung down over the west goalposts of the high school football field.

14 I had never seen it before, not in the kitchen, not at the football games, not when he took us places.

15 Seeing their fingers coming toward me I rolled away as a fumbled football rolls off the receiver's fingertips, back into the coals.

16 Some people elevate football into a religion.

有些人把足球运动奉为一种神圣的追求.

17 The sports Finny played officially—football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse—didn’t have school records.

18 Saturday morning I meet The Red Hearts of Limerick and we wander out the road looking for a football challenge.

19 My mom is just glad he gets to go to college for free because my sister doesn’t play football, and there wouldn’t be enough money to send both of them.

20 “Seriously, why are you taking me to the football field?”

1 英式橄榄球

Rugby rugger

2 足球

soccer pigskin leather kickball footballing

3 亏本出售

sacrifice sell at a sacrifice

4 美式足球

grid gridiron

5 足球运动

soccer footer footy

6 足球比赛

footer footie

7 橄榄球运动

rugby rugger

8 美式橄榄球

American football

9 玩物

sport toy plaything

10 橄榄球

pigskin footballing rugby rugger

11 炸弹

device egg bomb pineapple bombshell firecracker crump