Paiwan Warrior wins Olympic silver for Taiwan 排灣戰士替台灣奪得奧運銀牌！ Taiwan’s Yang Yung-wei (楊勇緯)* took the silver medal in Judo’s 60 kilogram category, marking the country’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympics and its first ever Olympic medal for Judo, on the first day of competition, Saturday, July 24. • mark 象徵；標記 • first ever Olympic medal 有史以來第一枚奧運獎牌 • Judo 柔道 *Yang: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yang ★★★★★★★★★★★★ Twenty-three-year-old Yang, of the Paiwan indigenous people, and from Taichung City, previously won silver medals at the 2019 Asian Pacific Judo Championships held in the United Arab Emirates, the 2019 World Judo Championships in Tokyo, Japan, the 2020 Judo Grand Slam in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the 2021 Judo World Masters in Doha, Qatar. • the Paiwan indigenous people 排灣族原住民 • be held in... 在...舉辦 ★★★★★★★★★★★★ While a gold medal would have broken a long streak of silver, and Yang was visibly disappointed at the end of the bout with 28-year-old Takato, Yang’s youth puts gold well within his reach in the future. By the time Yang reached the podium he had overcome his upset to Takato. After being awarded the silver medal, Yang picked it up and rubbed it on his cheek. “I wanted to feel it, this is the Olympic medal,” Yang said. • break/end a … streak 打破／終止～以來的紀錄 • streak (n.) 一陣好運；一陣黴運 https://bit.ly/3x8fxRL • visibly disappointed 明顯感到失望的 • bout 回合 • within his reach 他可以達到的範圍 • overcome his upset 克服敗局(的失落) • upset (n.) 混亂；麻煩；爆冷門； 翻倒；傾覆 https://bit.ly/3iWSX9W ★★★★★★★★★★★★ Yang’s achievement drew praise from all quarters in Taiwan with President Tsai Ing-wen taking to social media to say “Congratulations to Yang Yung-wei on your silver medal in judo! You’ve made your fellow Taiwanese proud, & won Team Taiwan’s first medal at Tokyo 2020.” • draw praise from 獲得～的好評 • all quarters 各界、各處、四面八方 • take to social media 使用社交媒體、在社交媒體上說 • make sb proud 使～驕傲 ★★★★★★★★★★★★ 完整英文報導: https://bit.ly/2TBtSIY #EEL時事英文 #體育時事英文