Paralympic Games：残奥会
　　More than 3，800 disabled athletes， including 144 Canadians， gathered Friday for the opening ceremony of the largest Paralympics in the games' 44-year history.

　　pitch：足球场
　　That signal is relayed by up to 12 antennae positioned in the corners of the pitch to a computer which then sends a message to a watch worn on the referee's wrist in less than one second.

　　finalist：决赛选手
　　Dominik Hrbaty had pulled Slovakia even at 2-2 by defeating an ailing Ivan Ljubicic 4-6， 6-3， 6-4， 3-6， 6-4. Ancic then downed Mertinak to clinch the best-of-five series between two first-time finalists.

　　shootaround：投篮训练
　　Houston Rockets' Tracy McGrady said after the morning shootaround that he remains a game-time decision Tuesday night against Atlanta， reports from Houston said.

　　foul out：被罚下场
　　Yao scored 14 of his season-best 30 points in the final period， but fouled out and could not prevent the Rockets from taking their seventh straight defeat， a 94-89 loss to the Chicago Bulls.

　　trail：（比赛中）落后
　　Trailing by 17 early in the fourth quarter， the Kings finally got going. Mike Bibby led the comeback with 14 of his 33 points in the fourth.

　　decider：决胜局
　　Limping on an injured right foot， Federer managed tiebreaker wins from both of the first two sets， but obviously ran out of energy before losing it on decider， 6-7 （4）， 6-7（11）， 6-2， 6-1， 7-6 （3） in four hours and 34 minutes.

　　lineup：阵容
　　Australia， Trinidad & Tobago， Switzerland， Spain and the Czech Republic completed the 32-team lineup for the World Cup finals after a day of unrelenting drama and tension brought qualifying to a close on Wednesday.

　　tie-break：（网球）加赛
　　Federer squandered three match points at 5-3 and 5-4 in the third before sealing victory 7-4 on a tie-break to stay on course for a third straight Masters Cup title.

　　fast break：快攻
　　Yao scored 10 points in the first 8 minutes of the game to help the Rockets take the lead for good. His dunk on a fast break tied the game for the final time at 13-13， and his free throw 15 seconds later gave Houston a one-point lead.

　　rebound：篮板球
　　Tim Duncan finished with 24 points and 16 rebounds， and Tony Parker scored eight of his 22 in overtime to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 104-95 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night.

　　kickoff：开始
　　Chinese Sunday extended its dominance in swimming at the East Asian Games as what it had done since the kick-off of the races to clinch four out of last seven events， piling up total 33 golds from 40 races.

　　clean sweep：全胜
　　Bao Guiying has led a clean sweep for China of the East Asian Games' opening athletics events， with victory in the women's 10，000m.

　　relegation：降级
　　The relegation system will be restored during the 2006 new season while the Super League Cup will be abolished and more teams be invited to the CFA Cup.

　　showdown：最后一决胜负
　　In fact， on his way through the draw and into a Sunday showdown with Croatian Ivan Ljubicic， Spain's teenaged Roland Garros winner has taken time to check in with the competition.

　　a winning streak：连胜
　　Getafe， in only their second season of top flight football， beat Real Zaragoza 5-2 while Real's four-game winning streak came to an end with their home defeat.

　　knockout：淘汰赛
　　Liverpool， Chelsea and Real Madrid secured wins on their way to the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League while Inter suffer a 2-0 upset at the hand of Porto on Wednesday.

　　starting grid：起跑排位
　　Ferrari's seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher was first to end the season， colliding on the way to the starting grid and spinning off during the race when following the safety car.

　　equalizer：扳平比分的得分
　　But there was no equalizer for China who have failed to qualify for the World Cup finals and must now concentrate on hosting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

　　jerk：挺举
　　Chen Yanqin bettered the world records in the jerk and total of the women's 58kg category weightlifting at the 10th National Games Tuesday afternoon. Chen Yanqin， from Jiangsu province， jerked 142.5kg and totaled 255kg en route to winning the gold medal of the division.

　　home side：主队
　　Barry Opdam of the Netherlands headed the second in the 37th and though the home side made most of the running after the break it was the massed ranks of orange-clad visiting fans celebrating at the end

　　sideline：迫使退出比赛
　　While Li has been sidelined， he has watched Everton plummet to the foot of the Premiership table and also suffer early exits in the Champions League and UEFA Cup.

　　shortlist：决选名单
　　“The information coming from UEFA is positive and we will take the necessary next steps when the shortlist of three is announced，” he added.

　　bout：比赛；较量
　　Two Americans lost bouts - Muhammed Lawal in the quarterfinals to Russia's Sazhid Sazhidov， and Daniel Cormier in the round of 16 in the 212-pound freestyle category.

　　pole position：竿位
　　The 24-year-old Spaniard became the series' youngest champion by finishing third in the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday， having already been the youngest race winner and pole position winner.

　　scoreline：比赛得分或结果
　　After that breathless start， the scoreline stayed the same until the 98th minute when Li scored his second of the game to send the southern Chinese team into the last four.

　　one-sided match：一边倒的比赛
　　Liaoning's main scorer， Xu Liang， shone on the field， putting away three goals in the heavily one-sided match， while teammate Qu Xiaohui added another two more for the victors.

　　triathlon：铁人三项
　　Round 12 of the ITU Triathlon World Cup doubled as a test for the proposed course for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Triathlon.

　　rookie：新手
　　The 7-foot-6 center and three-time NBA All-Star has one year left on his rookie contract， which will pay him more than $5.5 million next season.

　　rout：大败；溃败
　　Brazil's 5-0 rout of Chile on Sunday left the five-time world champions in second place in the South American qualifying group， one point behind Argentina but mathematically assured a berth in the 2006 Cup in Germany.

　　crank up：增加；改善
　　Andre Agassi became the fourth man over 35 and the first in 14 years to make the U.S. Open quarterfinals Monday， outlasting Xavier Malisse 6-3， 6-4， 6-7 （5）， 4-6， 6-2. Two points from a straight-sets win， Agassi couldn't find answers when Malisse cranked up the intensity and evened the match.

　　homer：本垒打
　　John Olerud homered twice and drove in six runs Thursday night as the Boston Red Sox came from behind for the third consecutive game， beating the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 7-4 to complete a four-game sweep.