The famous\"Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling\" is an ancient event which takes place annuallyontheSpringBankholiday1 in lovely Gloucestershire (UK).

The rules of the game are simple， you show up ， you chase（追逐） cheese off a cliff（懸崖）， you tumble（跌倒，跌跤） for a couple hundred yards， then you go to either the pub or the local hospital. Perhaps the star of the event is a round （圓面包等的一片）of \"Double Gloucester cheese\"weighing approximately2 7 pounds.It is wrapped（包扎）in cardboard （薄紙板）which offers some protection during the rolling/ bouncing process.The cheese has been known to bounce off course and in 1997 it hit a spectator（觀眾） in the head which sent him flying down the hill and into an ambulance （救護(hù)車）.The first participant3 to reach the bottom of the hill wins the 7-pound round of cheese.

The actual course on Coopers Hill is about 200 yards long which might not seem a lot，but it's damn(極，非常) steep. The best running line to take is pretty much down the centre.If you veer4 off into the side areas the grass tends to be a bit longer making it more difficult to find your footing （立足處） and you stand5 a greater chance of having your feet slide out from under you.

The precise history of this ancient event is un-clear.Some historians believe that the event predates （倒填……的日期） the Romans， others link the event to an old heathen (異教徒） festival which celebrates the return of spring.Whatever its true history may be one thing is certain and that is that the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling has been around6 for a very long time and it is damn exciting to watch and even more exciting to participate in. Long may it continue!

著名的“庫(kù)珀斯山滾乳酪大賽”是一項(xiàng)古老的體育比賽，每年春天銀行假日期間在美麗的格洛斯特郡（英國(guó)）舉行。

游戲的規(guī)則很簡(jiǎn)單，你只需到場(chǎng)參賽，在懸崖峭壁上追逐一塊乳酪，跌跌撞撞地翻滾過(guò)幾百碼地，然后你就要么去酒吧慶祝，要么住進(jìn)當(dāng)?shù)氐尼t(yī)院。也許這項(xiàng)比賽的明星就是一塊圓形的“雙層格洛斯特乳酪”，重約7磅。乳酪被薄紙板包裹著，這樣在它滾動(dòng)跳躍的過(guò)程中就可以得到一些保護(hù)。大家都知道乳酪在滾動(dòng)的過(guò)程中會(huì)跳出賽道，1997年，它擊中了一位觀眾的頭部，導(dǎo)致他飛快地滾下山坡，被送進(jìn)救護(hù)車。第一位到達(dá)山腳下的參賽者將贏得這塊重7磅的圓形乳酪。

在庫(kù)珀斯山舉行的這項(xiàng)活動(dòng)的賽道實(shí)際長(zhǎng)度大約是200碼，這看起來(lái)似乎不是很長(zhǎng)，但它卻非常陡峭。最佳的奔跑路線應(yīng)該是在賽道中間，如果你偏離方向跑到賽道邊緣區(qū)域，那兒的草往往會(huì)比較長(zhǎng)，這會(huì)讓你更難找到立足之地，而且你滑倒的幾率也就更大了。

關(guān)于這項(xiàng)古老運(yùn)動(dòng)的準(zhǔn)確歷史不甚清楚。一些歷史學(xué)家認(rèn)為這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)可以追溯到古羅馬人的時(shí)候，其他歷史學(xué)家則把這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)和一個(gè)歡慶春天回歸的古老異教徒節(jié)日聯(lián)系起來(lái)。無(wú)論真實(shí)的歷史是什么，有一個(gè)事實(shí)是肯定的，那就是庫(kù)珀斯山的滾乳酪大賽已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，而且觀看這項(xiàng)比賽絕對(duì)激動(dòng)人心，去參加比賽就更不用說(shuō)了。祝愿比賽長(zhǎng)久地持續(xù)下去!

注釋：

1．bank holiday 銀行假日（英國(guó)指法定假日）

2．a(chǎn)pporoximatelyad．近似地，大約

3．participant n．參加者，參與者

4．veervi．改變方向，轉(zhuǎn)向veer off偏離

5．standvt．經(jīng)受，遭受

6．a(chǎn)rounda.存在著的，被見(jiàn)到的