皮劃艇運動 Canoe/Kayak

About Canoe / Kayak （Olympic sport since 1936）

皮劃艇概述（1936年成為奧運會正式比賽項目）

　　The history of the canoe and kayak has been traced back thousands of years to when natives used these craft to hunt, fish and travel. Canoes were used mainly by the native North and South American Indians along with the Polynesian islanders of the Pacific. They were propelled through the water by single-bladed paddles usually made from wood.

　　劃艇和皮艇的歷史可以追溯到幾千年以前，它們是古代的當?shù)鼐用裼脕泶颢C、捕魚和旅行的工具。劃艇的前身為獨木舟，其使用者主要是南美和北美洲的印第安人以及太平洋波利尼西亞島上的居民，他們使用單面槳在水中劃行，槳的材質(zhì)通常為木質(zhì)。

　　The earliest known archaeological evidence of a canoe was unearthed at the tomb of a Sumerian king near the Euphrates River. This relic is estimated to be around 6000 years old. The counterpart of the American Indian canoe is the kayak which was introduced by Eskimos many years ago. These people inhabited the land to the far north of the American continent and Greenland.

　　最早有關(guān)劃艇的考古發(fā)現(xiàn)是在位于幼法拉底河附近的一個閃族國王的墳?zāi)怪斜话l(fā)掘的，該遺跡已有6000年左右的歷史。而很久以前居住在美洲大陸和格林蘭島最北部的愛斯基摩人所使用的獸皮船，也是與美洲印第安人的獨木舟相類似的交通工具。

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