Why do athletes always run around a track in a counter-clockwise direction?
- Track and field events started in ancient Greece, and they used a counter-clockwise direction.
- The leftward direction is common in nature, like the rotation of the Earth and the Sun.
- The left leg is usually more stable for most people, so they turn left when running.
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度々ですみませんが、また英語の翻訳をおねがいします。 The other day,I was watching the Olympics on television, and it made me curious about something.Why do athletes always run around a track ina counter-clockwise direction? In other words,why do they always turn left,not right? I asked a lot of people remained a mystery ,I decided to try it for myself. I went to my local park and ran around the pond twice, once colockwise and once counter-clockwise. It definitely seemed much more natural to turn left. I got so interested in the question that I decided to do some research. One book told me that track and field events started in ancient Greece,and the direction the Greeks used was going from right to left. So perhaps history gives us the answer.Another book showed me aa natural explanation. It said the leftward direction is common in nature. For example,the earth revolves on its axis and araound the sun in this way.Neither of these expanations seemed very convincing, however, and they made me even more frustrated. Finally I found another book which gave me asientific answer that seemed more satisfying. It is based on the defference between the left and the right leg.Apparently,we all have one leg that feels more stable. If you close your eyes and stand on both legs,you can easily tell which leg this is.We call this is. We call this leg the pivot leg,and for most people it is the left leg. We don't usually use both legs equally when we stand. 最初から途中までの本文です。 優しい回答おねがいします。
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こないだテレビでオリンピックを見てたら、疑問が湧いた。ランナーはどうしてトラックを反時計回りに走るのか。どうして決まっているのか。何人かの人に聞いたけど、結局分らず仕舞いだった。それで自分で実際に走って試してみることにした。近所の公園に行って、時計回りと反時計回りと、2回走ってみた。明らかに左回りの方が自然な感じがした。 興味を覚えたので少し調べてみた。ある本によると、トラック競技つまりフィールド競技は古代ギリシャに起源がある。そして、そのギリシャ人は右から左という方向に向かって走っていた。どうやら歴史的な経緯があるのかもしれない。別な本には、自然に基く説明がされていた。それによると、左方向に向かうというのは、自然の中では普通のことだという。たとえば地球は地軸を中心にしてそのように回っているし、太陽の回りを回るのも同じだ。どちらの説明も、完全には納得できなかった。 それから別な本を見たら、科学的な説明がしてあって、これなら納得できる気がした。それは右足と左足の違いに着目して説明していた。われわれには利き足というものがある。立っている状態で目を瞑ってみるとどちらが利き足だか分る。多くの場合、それは左足だ。われわれが立っている時に、両方の足を同じ割合で使うことは普通はないのだ。
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