Weird Butterfly Ceremony

課文：

The crowd cheers and shouts as two 15-man teams take the field. Their goal? To carry or kick a ball over their opponent’s try line. The game looks like a mixture of soccer and American football. In this rough-and-tumble sport, players carry the ball, kick the ball and tackle one another. Men play it; women play it; and so do children. In fact, played in more than 120 countries, rugby is tremendously popular!

take the field：上陣、開戰
kick：踢
opponent：對手、反對者
try line：得分線、球門線
mixture：混雜、混合
rough-and-tumble：競爭激烈的、混戰的
rough：困難的
tumble：跌落
tackle：擒抱並摔倒
rugby：英式橄欖球
tremendously：極好地、極度地

Legend says the sport of rugby was invented in 1823 at Rugby School in England. A student named William Webb Ellis was playing in a soccer match. But he got bored with just kicking the ball, so he picked up the ball and ran with it. The rest, as they say, is history.

legend：傳說
invent：發明、創造
match：比賽、競賽
the rest is history：其餘的事大家都知道，不須贅述

A rugby team has two kinds of players: backs and forwards. The backs are smaller, faster players. They are the ones who score most of the points, called tries. The forwards are bigger and heavier. They tackle players on the opposing team. Each exciting, energetic match lasts 80 minutes.

oppose：敵對、反對
energetic：有力的、精力旺盛的

文法：
S + got bored with just…，so…（厭煩了只能…所以就…）

特別補充：
make history：史上第一人
op-：反對（=against）