Liu was encouraged at first to train as a high jumper.

一开始，刘翔被鼓励训练成为一个跳高运动员。

youdao

A high jumper, in the eyes of the experts, seems not to know what to do.

一个跳高的人，专家认为不懂得跳。

youdao

It's like being a high jumper: you want to keep raising the bar until you knock it down, otherwise you don't know how high you can jump.

就像跳高比赛：在你撞到那条横杆之前你总是会努力让它升得更高，否则你不会知道你到底能跳多高。

youdao

He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.

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It was a game for fans who appreciate high-octane offense, and a pull-up jumper by Westbrook extended the Thunder's lead to 10 points late in the fourth.

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His flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he'd crossed the Atlantic, and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles, which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as Sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed.

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