Snooker needs a new audience.

斯诺克需要新观众。

It is going to change snooker.

斯诺克将会发生改变。

THE game of snooker is a curious one.

斯诺克是一项奇特的运动。

He said snooker occupied all his life.

他说，他的生活完全被台球占据了。

He told others that snooker was "dying".

他放言“斯诺克正在死去”，但这明显不是现实。

Residents of City of God playing snooker in a local bar.

图为上帝之城的一些居民在当地的一个俱乐部里玩台球。

Former snooker player Alex Higgins has died at the age of 61.

前斯诺克选手阿历克斯·希金斯享年61岁。

Snooker needs a new audience. A game ending in 30 minutes is exciting.

斯诺克需要新观众。一场在30分钟内结束的比赛无非会让人们感到刺激。

Try to find the words associated with snooker in the puzzle below.

请在下面的字谜游戏中，找出与斯诺克有关的英语单词来。

Snooker, boxing, darts, table tennis and even skiing can call Britain home.

斯诺克，拳击，投镖，乒乓球甚至滑雪都可以视英国为故乡。

I wanted to act as an ambassador to spread that magic of snooker throughout the world.

我希望成为将斯诺克的魔力传遍世界的使者。

These are the famed spot paintings that Mr Hirst says were inspired by playing snooker.

这就是闻名的“散点”绘画，赫斯特先生说这类绘画的灵感是玩彩色桌球时激发的。

Ding said that being the only Chinese superstar in world snooker was lonely, at times.

丁俊晖说自己作为世界台球圈中唯一一位中国巨星，有时也觉得孤独。

Ding usually spent eight to ten hours every day in the 22 poolroom playing snooker alone.

丁俊晖通常每天花8到10个小时在球室独自练球。

My parents had given up everything for me, so I had no other 24 options but play snooker.

父母为我放弃了很多，我没有别的选择，只能专心打台球。

My parents had given up everything for me, so I had no other 24)options but play snooker.

父母为我放弃了很多，我没有别的选择，只能专心打台球。

Jim: Have you been watching the snooker on TV? It's the world championship from Sheffield in England.

吉姆：你有在电视上看斯诺克吗？这是英格兰设菲尔德的世界级锦标赛。

For me it's not a dream that comes true, as I never dreamed I could do that when I began to play snooker.

对我来说，这并不算什么梦想成真，因为我开始打台球的时候并没有梦想过自己能成为这样。

Higgins replied with 40 but, after missing the last red along the side cushion, soon found himself needing a snooker.

希金斯打出40分后叫边库的最后一颗红球不到位，很快发现需要做一杆斯诺克。

He didn't play much now, the local snooker halls had barred him, but he was still sure he could beat almost everyone.

他不太玩斯诺克了，当地的球厅将他拒之门外，但他自信自己可以击败绝大多数人。

My dad was watching a snooker competition on the television, and I liked what I saw so much that I asked for a table.

当时爸爸正从电视上观看一场斯诺克比赛，我看到后非常喜欢，于是就想要一张球桌。

Both father and son lived in 15 cramped conditions, sharing a five-square-meter room 16 adjoining the local snooker club.

父子俩的居住环境非常狭窄，就挤在一个只有五平方米的小房间里，紧挨着当地一家台球俱乐部。

In the years of his best form (helped by the advent of colour, which made sense of the balls), snooker became a television sensation.

在他状态最佳的那些年(感谢电视的出现，它让斯诺克等到了普及)，斯诺克比赛让电视名声大震。

"I wanted to take the magic of snooker to towns, cities and countries where people had only ever seen snooker on television," he said.

“我想把斯诺克的魔力带到各镇、各城、各国里那些只能在电视上体验斯诺克的人们。”他如是说。

In order to ensure that the boy always had a table on which to practice, Ding Wenjun gave up his business and opened a snooker club.

为了保证儿子总有球台练习球技，丁文钧放弃了原来的生意，开了一家台球室。