94 Future Champions

Future champions

未来的冠军

Experiments have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early age.

实验证明,儿童在很小的时候就可以开始学习游泳。

At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles,

在洛杉矶的一个特设的游泳池里,

children become expert at holding their breath under water even before they can walk.

孩子们甚至在还没有学会走路时就已经能熟练地在水下屏住呼吸了。

Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water.

两个月的婴儿并未显得不愿意入水。

It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool.

他们很快便适应了游泳,以致能捡起池底的物品。