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全民玩冰壶引起外媒热议

Chinese peoples enthusiasm for snow sports has been boosted by the ongoing Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, and there has been news about how people have got involved and found creative ways to enjoy the sports themselves. Some have created "homemade curling" using a wok or kettle, as well as various items for the "ice brush," both outdoors and indoors.

正在举行的北京2022年冬奥会激发了中国人对冰雪运动的热情，也有关于人们如何参与并找到自己享受冰雪运动的创造性方式的新闻。有些人用炒锅或水壶制作了“自制冰壶”，还有各种各样的“冰刷”，无论是在室内还是室外都喜闻乐见。

It is reported that the curling used in the Olympic Games is usually made of rare granite mined and polished from a remote island in Scotland by a company with a history of more than 170 years. Such curlers are not easy to obtain. Chinese people use their brains to replace them with sliding kettle, casserole, frying pan, pressure cooker and ice, or even completely self-made.

据报道，奥运会上所使用的冰壶，通常由一家拥有170多年历史的公司，从苏格兰一个偏远岛屿上开采稀有花岗岩并打磨而成。这样的冰壶并不容易获得，中国民众们开动脑筋，使用滑动水壶、砂锅、炒锅、高压锅、冰块代替，甚至完全自制。

In North Chinas Inner Mongolia autonomous region, a man carved a rectangular block of ice into the shape of a curling stone with an ice shovel. He then drilled a hole in the top with an electric drill and inserted a red tube as a handle, a video showed.

在中国北方的内蒙古自治区，一名男子用冰铲将一块长方形冰块雕刻成冰壶形状。一段视频显示，他随后用电钻在顶部钻了一个洞，并插入了一根红色管子作为把手。

For the creativity and enthusiasm of netizens that "everything can curl", foreign media commented that this makes it more promising for the Winter Olympics to achieve the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports".

对于网友们“万物皆可冰壶”的创意与热情，外媒评价称，这让冬奥实现“带动三亿人参与冰雪运动”的目标更有希望。

The Winter Olympic Games have driven peoples enthusiasm for ice and snow sports, which has stimulated creativity, so that everyone can enjoy the competition, participate in sports, share the spirit of ice and snow sports with the help of short videos, and jointly feel the charm of ice and snow sports.

冬奥会带动了民众对冰雪运动的热情，热情又激发了创意，让大家在欢乐中欣赏比赛、参与运动并分享借助短视频传播冰雪运动精神，共同感受冰雪运动的魅力。

词汇解释

1. curler [ˈkɜːlə(r)]，（n）：卷发夹

2. jointly [dʒɔɪntlɪ]，（adv）：连带地

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