Chapter 17, 11.15

Vocabulary:

1.If not, he might bounce into a twin killing, snuffing out扼杀 a rally and dimming his team’s hopes in the flag scramble.

Government snuffs out the sprout of capitalism.

2.They also have a dread害怕 of repeating the word

I have a dread of failure.

3.Even Babe Ruth was ushered引领 down from the sanitized slopes of Olympus and converted into a real person,

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Reflection:

这章生词好多，看的很吃力，就抓几个重点。

Do not obsessed by cliche and numbers. Make the connection between sports and social history. Look for values, which means people and places, time and transition, when you write about sport.