When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play.
Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fishes and birds dance. The apes have simple, pleasurable games.
狗和貓會扭抱玩球,魚和鳥翩翩起舞,猿類會進(jìn)行一些簡單的、愉快的游戲。
Frolicking infants, school children playing tag, adult arm wrestlers are demonstrating strong,transgenerational and transspecies bonds with the universe of animals - past, present, and future.
Young animals, particularly, tumble, chase, run wrestle, mock, imitate, and laugh (or so it seems) to the point of delighted exhaustion.
特別是幼獸,它們翻筋斗、追逐、奔跑、扭打、模仿、嬉笑(或者看起來是),直到愉快地精疲力盡。
Their play, and ours, appears to serve no other purpose than to give pleasure to the players, and apparently, to remove us temporarily from the anguish of life in earnest.