珞珈之作：


Play for Love or Money

Ancient Greek created a spirit by founding the important game of human beings. This we call Olympic spirit, which presented in from Greece athletics to modern Olympic Games, is that challenging oneself by becoming stronger, faster and higher. It means that, as some idealists have been advocating for, we play just for love of amateurism and improving the standards of sports.
However, because of the development of society and consequent commercialism worldwide, modern athletic sports has been becoming a tool of commerce. There are more and more professional players and these people think what the important things is to win. The fact is, in modern professional athletic sports even Olympic Games, the winner could earn a large amount of money which a ordinary people can’t imagine. Therefore, to play and to win for money, has been the article of faith of modern athletic sports.
No one can deny that pursuing material wealth is the motive force of evolution of the human beings and ignore the power of money. Special attention should be paid, the commerce’s participating also made the sports becoming more developed and active and improving the standards of play meanwhile. It is unimaginable that sports could develop in the world of today without the commerce. A key feature is, by the development of athletic sports, not only the professional players, but also most of people have acquired something from it.
But, shall we give up the Olympic spirit and only play for money? The answer is certainly no. The athletics brings us not only the healthy body but also the courage and the unflinching will to surmount any difficulty. Only love and the wishes of challenging ourselves make sports senseful. It never be replaced by the money or something else. In fact, why most professional players doing their best to win is not merely for money, if so, they will have no chances to becoming real winners and, furthermore, they are even not men but machines. Even though more and more sports are full of commerce activities, there are still many kinds of athletics which most people taking part in just for they love and enjoy it. In present time, we don’t fight against that someone may play to win for money, but we advocate that we should play with a spirit, which originated from ancient Greece and will never be disappeared, loving lives, challenging ourselves and triumphing over enemy.

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带子郎之作：

Play for Love or Money

In the times when athletic sports are in unprecedentedly
flourish ,the debate concerning playing for money or love
seems inevitable.
Some idealists hold the opinion that the love of
amateurism will improve the standards of play. It is
reasonable ,for with the development of business and
sports,the two are inclinded to join more and more close,
for instance, many basketball and football teams are
supported financially by a certain commercial and the team
play for it ,acting as the ad. or the others. Those people
like them making earnings from the sports are called
professional athlete. To some degree, it leads to the
decline of the sportsmanship in that sportsman are possibly
do anything for money. Taking excitation,fighting in the
sports field,and so on are seen from time to time.
While the advcacy of the love of amateurism will help to
solve the problem.
Viewed from the athletes, the most important thing is to
win. To them ,winning brings forward their capability and
and in the same time bring them considerable earnings,which
is so important to them.
As to me,playing for money is the menifestation of the
development of the business world. In the beginning of
history, those Roman played just for friendship and love.
But in modern times,it will never occur to people to play
for love;it is the opinion of idealists, I should say.
However in most cases, I find out few athletes play only
for money. Generally speaking, it is the love for the
sports they take up that lead them in the way of athletics
and it is the money that give them incentive and pressure.
The former is , more or less,spiritual force and the latter
is the material force.
Since the factor of money cannot be excluded definetaly,why
not we advocate the force of spirit ,when faced with so
many problems brought by money, like the incipience of the
athletic sports?

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