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  在这一部分,我们将把与世界足坛相关的最有意思的一些人物介绍给大家,看看关于他们的特写。每次,你都有机会读一篇故事并学习一些有用的词汇,然后做个练习,检验一下自己的阅读技巧

  今天,我们给大家介绍 Bob Cattell,他是一位儿童作家,擅长撰写足球方面的文章。Bob 说,为儿童写文章,必须要注意选材。
Writing for kids

Writing for children does impose certain limits, Bob admits. Unlike the real game there must be no swearing and no sex scandals. Otherwise, short ofcomplexfinancial matters, no subjects are taboo.

"Because you're dealing with an audience that is traditionally reluctant to read, you want them to feel that they must turn the page to find out what happens next. So the narrative has to run very fast. The books must also be acceptable for kids to be seen reading at school. I guess they derive from the older tradition of adventure stories we used to read all the time in magazines like Boy's Own and comics like Roy of the Rovers."

"This genre came to be dismissed as rather old-fashioned in the 1970s and 1980s. Even the notion of boys being competitive fell out of favouramongst educationalists. So perhaps the Strikers series is my way of returning to the sort of books I enjoyed reading when I was a child in the 1950s. And I suppose yes, the good guys in my stories do usually win."

Glossary
impose (v.) 强加
swearing (n.) 诅咒,骂
short of 除了
taboo (n.) 禁忌语
deal with 对待;打交道
reluctant (adj.) 勉强的
acceptable (adj.) 可以接受的
fall out of favour 失宠



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