每次看美国队比赛,总有美女啦啦队在一旁呐喊助威,风头直逼场上比赛的队员。那么你知道美国啦啦队是怎么来的吗?
Just as any anything else, cheerleading has quite a history behind it. In ancient times spectators cheered for runners in races held during the first ever Olympic Games in ancient Greece. In the 1860's students in Great Britain began cheering at competitive sporting events and soon the idea spread to the United States. At Princeton in New Jersey, in 1865 the first pep club was formed and they created the first-known cheer:
和其他任何事物一样,啦啦队的背后也颇有一段历史。在古希腊第一次奥林匹克运动会所举办的赛跑比赛中,古时的观众们就曾为赛跑者欢呼喝彩。到了19世纪60年代,大不列颠帝国的学子们开始在竞技体育赛事中欢呼助威,随后不久这一形式就传到了美国。1865年,在新泽西州的普林斯顿大学,第一个(旨在创造体育比赛刺激气氛的)活力俱乐部诞生了,他们发明了已知最早的欢呼口号:
"Tah rah rah
Tiger Tiger Tiger
Sis sis sis
Boom boom boom
Aaaahhhhh!
Princton! Princeton! Princeton!"