There are different ways to spend our free time, such as physical exercise and intellectual activities.

存在不同的方法打发我们的空闲时间,例如：体育运动和智力的活动.

Physical recreation and intellectual development are the two basic ways in which we college students engage ourselves in our leisure time. Some enjoy physical recreation while others prefer intellectual development.

身体锻炼和智力活动是我们大学生在业余时间里从事的两种基本方式。有些人热衷于体育锻炼，有些人则更喜欢智力活动。

1.Physical exercise：

From strenuous sports such as marathon races to slow paced events like a round of golf, physical exercise affords us the opportunities to strengthen our bodies and to satisfy our competitive nature.

从剧烈运动例如马力松竞赛到慢节奏的运动像一回合高尔夫球，体育运动提供给我们机会来加锻炼身体和满足我们的竞争天性。

Physical pastimes provide welcome and necessary breaks in our often sedentary lives and alert us to our physical condition.

体育消遣给我们这种经常坐着的生活提供了愉快和必需的休息并且改变了我们的身体条件。

Have you ever gone swimming in a hot stuffy summer day? Have you ever been to the seashore to see the splendid waves? Have you ever stood on the peak of a mountain with cloud around you? Have you ever walked in the quiet silver moonlight? If you have no experience like these, your life is an inadequate one. In my point of view, I like outdoor activities much more than indoor activities.

你曾经在炎热的夏天出去游泳么？你曾经去过海边感受完美的海浪么？你感受过站在云雾环绕的山顶上么？你曾经走在银色的月光下么？如果你没有这些经验，你的生活就不算完整。看我看来，我更加喜欢户外运动。

The first reason can be seen by every person. Outdoor activities can improve our physical health greatly.

第一个原因显而易见。户外运动能够极大地提高我们的身体健康。

As a student, I must spend 10 to 12 hours per day in studying textbooks or doing experiments. All this work is indoors. When I take some outdoor activities, I feel refreshed. It is a feeling of a bird rushing out of the cage. When I am running in bright sunshine in the afternoon, I believe become a hunting dog running in the wild, persuing a rabbit. Outdoor activities make my heart and muscles strong. They make me full of life and strength.

做为一名学生。我每天必须花10到12个小时用于学习教科书和做实验上。所有这些工作都是室内的。当我做一些户外运动的时候，我感觉到精力充沛。这是一种鸟冲出笼子的感觉。当我在午后明亮的太阳底下跑步的时候，我感觉自己变成了一只猎狗在野外正追逐着一只野兔。运动使我的心脏和肌肉变得强壮，它使我充满了活力和力量。

The second reason for my propensity for outdoor activities is that they can build my mind greatly.

我倾向于户外运动的第二个原因是它们能够非常有效地建立起我的心志。

In sports, one must learn to struggle for the victory, learn to fight with no matter what is left in his body. And one must learn to stick to one’s own confidence and hope, no matter how little the hope may be. And one must learn to accept failure, learn to start again after failure.

在运动中，一个人必须学会为胜利而斗争，无论在你的身体里剩下多少力量你也要和它做斗争。一个人必须坚持自己的信心和希望，不管希望有多少。并且一定要学会接受失败，失败之后再爬起来。

Long-running and mountain climbing contribute much to this kind of spirits. I will never forget the feeling when I raced to the final line first in a 3000-metre running. I could hardly breathe in the last 100 metres. My lungs ached and my legs weighed tons, but there was still one runner in front of me. I gave all my strength to move one toot ahead of the other. When I surpassed him, he gave a cry of surprise. I won at last and I learned much from the race.