美語情景對話 第936期:MMA 綜合格鬥

Erina: Hi, Mike. I was wondering the difference between MMA and boxing? What are the differences?

惠裏奈：你好，邁克。我想知道綜合格鬥和拳擊之間的區別。這兩種運動有什麼區別？

Mike: Well, there's a lot of differences actually. MMA stands for mixed martial arts so I guess by the name you can tell that there are a lot of different variations of MMA. It's usually a combination of stand up fighting and ground fighting. So in contrast with boxing, boxing is only stand up, you never fight on the ground and with MMA there are many different styles and different tournaments, different kinds of rules. There's fighting standing up and there's fighting going to the ground which would also include submission and so right off the bat that's quite a big difference there.

邁克：實際上有很多區別。MMA是綜合格鬥，我想從名字上你也可以理解，綜合格鬥包括很多種不同的技術。一般來說，綜合格鬥是指站立格鬥和地面格鬥的結合。與拳擊不同的是，拳擊只能站立擊打，不能在地面上打，而綜合格鬥有很多種不同的技術，比賽和規則也不同。既有站立格鬥也有地面格鬥，還包括拍地認輸，這是最大的不同。

Erina: Oh, I see. Do you like MMA better or kick boxing better because I know you used to box, right?

惠裏奈：哦，我明白了。我知道你以前練習拳擊，那你是更喜歡綜合格鬥還是踢拳？

Mike: Yeah, I mean kick boxing is definitely, you know, heading towards MMA whereas boxing is quite a strict discipline and the rules are a lot more basic whereas MMA has different variations and stuff. It's very difficult to choose which one I like better. I really enjoy watching both and I don't compare them as if one is better than the other but they're just very different sports.

邁克：對，踢拳……拳擊的訓練非常嚴格，而且有很多基礎規則，而綜合格鬥包含很多種技術。很難選擇更喜歡哪個。這兩種比賽我都很喜歡看，我不會把這兩種運動相比較，我不認爲其中一項運動比另一個好，這是兩種完全不同的運動。

Erina: Oh, I see, I see. So you know in Japan Pride and K1 are, you know, very famous here.

惠裏奈：哦，我知道了，我明白了。你知道，PRIDE格鬥大賽和站立式格鬥賽在日本非常出名。

Mike: Right.

邁克：沒錯。

Erina: What about in Canada? Is MMA big?

惠裏奈：那加拿大呢？綜合格鬥受歡迎嗎？

Mike: Well, recently in Canada as well but, you know, in America, in North America now MMA is really big. It's much bigger than boxing is now and UFC, Ultimate Fighter Championship, is the league which is by far the biggest MMA league in the world and it's been growing in popularity ever since it started and I think the reason that MMA is becoming so much bigger than boxing is because it's so much more versatile. You have people from so many different disciplines in martial arts and recently it's not enough to be just disciplined in boxing or taekwando or judo or jujitsu, you have to be disciplined in various disciplines because the guys that are the best in the UFC league they can do it all. So they can do stand up fighting, punches, kicks, they can do ground fighting so some people would say it's more interesting to watch and you get a lot more people from different places and different styles so I think the doors to MMA are open a lot wider than they are to boxing.

邁克： 最近在加拿大很受歡迎，現在在美洲，尤其是北美，綜合格鬥非常受歡迎。比拳擊更受歡迎，終極格鬥錦標賽（簡稱UFC）是目前世界上最大的終極格鬥比賽，自起源以來越來越受歡迎，我想綜合格鬥比拳擊更受歡迎的原因是因爲綜合格鬥包含各種技術。人們來自不同的武術領域，最近，只會拳擊、跆拳道、柔道或是柔術是不夠的，必須要會不同的技術，因爲UFC比賽中的最強選手會所有的技術。他們既會站立式格鬥、出拳、踢腿，也會地面格鬥，所以人們認爲觀看UFC比賽更有意思，因爲可以看到來自不同地區的人們在比賽中展現各種各樣的技術，所以我認爲綜合格鬥比拳擊的範圍要更廣。

Erina: Wow. I would love to go watch MMA tournaments one day.

惠裏奈：哇哦。我想看綜合格鬥比賽。

Mike: Yeah, absolutely. They're a lot of fun so please check them out.

邁克：當然好啊。比賽很有意思，請一定要觀看。

Erina: Yeah, I will.

惠裏奈：好，我會的。

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重點講解：
1. stand for (某個字母)是…的縮寫，代表，表示；
例句：What do the following Abbr. stand for?
以下簡寫形式分別代表什麼？
2. in contrast with 相比之下；與…相反；
例句：In contrast with his brothers, Tom is rather short.
與幾位兄弟相比，湯姆的個子相當矮。
3. by far 迄今爲止；到目前爲止；
例句：She is by far the best teacher I have ever had.
她是我一生中所遇到的最好的老師。
4. check out 看看；
例句：You should check out that new movie. It's great.
你應該看那部新電影。很棒的。