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翻译：隽谊
Although zorbing[悠波球] was invented in 2000 in New Zealand, it has only recently begun to take off around the world.
It involves a giant plastic ball which has two skins ?one inside the other. The area between the skins is pumped[打气] up with air. The person zorbing climbs into the interior[内部]. The ball is then rolled down a hill.
“It’s not really amazingly scary, it’s not an amazing adrenalin[肾上腺素] rush -it’s just bizarrely[古怪的] fun,”said the co-inventor of zorbing, Andrew Akers.
Like a number of other extreme sports, zorbing originated in New Zealand.
Mr. Akers explained that there are a number of reasons why New Zealanders have developed an attraction to developing these types of activities.
“We’re so far away from anywhere that we’ve really had to make our own fun,”he said.
Zorbing Methods
There are two different ways to zorb-either harnessed[绑带] inside the ball, or “hydro[水的]-zorbing,”which involves putting water in the ball, which zorbers can slide[滑动] around on as it revolves.
There were fears that people would be sick.
“However, of over 100,000 people who have now done it, no one has ever thrown up inside the zorb,”Mr. Akers explained.
This is because as the zorb is 3.2m in diameter[直径], it rotates[旋转] only once every 10m -so even down 100m of hill, it will make a full rotation only 10 times.
“The whole feeling is actually not that scary -it’s kind of a going over and over. For some people this will be the scariest thing they do, but for people who do bungee jumping or skydiving[跳伞] or white water rafting[乘筏], this really is nowhere near that sort of level of adrenalin or fear factor,”Mr. Akers added.
尽管新西兰人早在2000年就发明了悠波球运动，但直到今天，这项运动才正式在全球兴起。
这项运动的主体是一个巨大的双层塑料球—外层里面还有一层。球体的内外层之间被注满了空气。悠波球玩家爬进内层，然后球体便滚下山坡。
“这项运动其实并不会引起极度恐慌，也不会引发肾上腺素急剧上升……它只会为我们带来一种另类的快乐，”悠波球的发明者之一安德鲁·艾克斯这样说道。
就如其他许多极限运动一样，悠波球同样来自新西兰。
艾克斯先生向我们解释说，新西兰人一直钟情于发展此类极限运动是有其特殊原因的。
“我们居住的地方仿佛与世隔绝，必须为自己的生活找点乐趣，”他说道。
悠波球玩法
悠波球有两种不同的玩法：一种是球内有绑带的；另外一种是“加水”悠波球，即往球内注水。球员们随着球体转动而在水上滑动。
有人担心这项运动容易让人感到不适。
“然而，在逾十万名参与过这项运动的人当中，没有一人曾因此而呕吐，”艾克斯先生说道。
这是因为悠波球的直径达3.2米，每10米仅旋转1次—因此，即使沿100米长的山坡滑行，球体也不过转动10次左右。
“这项运动的整体感觉其实并不算很恐怖—那种感觉就像一种不断的滚动。对某些人来说，这可能算是他们玩过的最可怕的运动了；但对于那些勇于挑战蹦极跳、跳伞或皮筏冲浪漂流的人来说，这项运动无论在肾上腺素水平还是惊吓程度上都是小巫见大巫了。”艾克斯先生又补充道。
Although zorbing[悠波球] was invented in 2000 in New Zealand, it has only recently begun to take off around the world.
It involves a giant plastic ball which has two skins ?one inside the other. The area between the skins is pumped[打气] up with air. The person zorbing climbs into the interior[内部]. The ball is then rolled down a hill.
“It’s not really amazingly scary, it’s not an amazing adrenalin[肾上腺素] rush -it’s just bizarrely[古怪的] fun,”said the co-inventor of zorbing, Andrew Akers.
Like a number of other extreme sports, zorbing originated in New Zealand.
Mr. Akers explained that there are a number of reasons why New Zealanders have developed an attraction to developing these types of activities.
“We’re so far away from anywhere that we’ve really had to make our own fun,”he said.
Zorbing Methods
There are two different ways to zorb-either harnessed[绑带] inside the ball, or “hydro[水的]-zorbing,”which involves putting water in the ball, which zorbers can slide[滑动] around on as it revolves.
There were fears that people would be sick.
“However, of over 100,000 people who have now done it, no one has ever thrown up inside the zorb,”Mr. Akers explained.
This is because as the zorb is 3.2m in diameter[直径], it rotates[旋转] only once every 10m -so even down 100m of hill, it will make a full rotation only 10 times.
“The whole feeling is actually not that scary -it’s kind of a going over and over. For some people this will be the scariest thing they do, but for people who do bungee jumping or skydiving[跳伞] or white water rafting[乘筏], this really is nowhere near that sort of level of adrenalin or fear factor,”Mr. Akers added.
尽管新西兰人早在2000年就发明了悠波球运动，但直到今天，这项运动才正式在全球兴起。
这项运动的主体是一个巨大的双层塑料球—外层里面还有一层。球体的内外层之间被注满了空气。悠波球玩家爬进内层，然后球体便滚下山坡。
“这项运动其实并不会引起极度恐慌，也不会引发肾上腺素急剧上升……它只会为我们带来一种另类的快乐，”悠波球的发明者之一安德鲁·艾克斯这样说道。
就如其他许多极限运动一样，悠波球同样来自新西兰。
艾克斯先生向我们解释说，新西兰人一直钟情于发展此类极限运动是有其特殊原因的。
“我们居住的地方仿佛与世隔绝，必须为自己的生活找点乐趣，”他说道。
悠波球玩法
悠波球有两种不同的玩法：一种是球内有绑带的；另外一种是“加水”悠波球，即往球内注水。球员们随着球体转动而在水上滑动。
有人担心这项运动容易让人感到不适。
“然而，在逾十万名参与过这项运动的人当中，没有一人曾因此而呕吐，”艾克斯先生说道。
这是因为悠波球的直径达3.2米，每10米仅旋转1次—因此，即使沿100米长的山坡滑行，球体也不过转动10次左右。
“这项运动的整体感觉其实并不算很恐怖—那种感觉就像一种不断的滚动。对某些人来说，这可能算是他们玩过的最可怕的运动了；但对于那些勇于挑战蹦极跳、跳伞或皮筏冲浪漂流的人来说，这项运动无论在肾上腺素水平还是惊吓程度上都是小巫见大巫了。”艾克斯先生又补充道。