Tsinghua University first made swimming a requirement in 1919 but later gave it up because the number of students became too large and there were not enough swimming pools in the school for them to learn swimming.

1919年，清华大学首次规定学生必须游泳，但后来由于学生人数过多，学校也没有足够的游泳池供学生学习游泳而放弃了这一规定。

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Why should we learn swimming?

为什么我们要学游泳？

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We learn swimming only by swimming.

我们只能通过游泳来学习游泳。

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More than 200 people have signed up to learn to dive at a Luton swimming pool in the past month.

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What I mean is that it takes a while to learn your way around this floating entertainment zone of restaurants, bars, swimming pools and lifts.

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