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,
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.