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昨天，我们了解到，现在越来越多的人喜欢学习下围棋。那在过去，是不是每一个人都能下围棋呢？今天我们就来了解一下。

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The game of Go is historically high-browart-form. "In ancient China, Go was mostly favored by intellectuals, especially those from the upper classand the bureaucracy. The ordinary people would seldom take a liking to this game.
在过去，围棋是一种高雅的艺术形式。在古代，围棋最受当时的知识分子的青睐，尤其是上层社会和达官贵人。普通老百姓人很少会下围棋。
high-brow / ha? bra? /
adj. 文化修养高的（人）
intellectual/ ??nt??lekt?u?l /
n. 知识分子
upper class/ ??p? klɑ?s /
上等阶层，上流社会
bureaucracy/ bj???r?kr?si /
n. 官僚制度，官僚机构，官僚作风；官僚，政府官员
Only those with some degree of education can approach this game, because it's so complicated. It has too many variations of play and requires a great deal of calculation. An ancient scientist once calculated that the board positions in a single game can be a number that is 768 digitslong.
因为围棋比较复杂，所以只有受过一定教育的人才会下围棋。围棋的下法非常多，需要大量的计算。一位古代科学家曾经计算出，在一场比赛当中，一盘棋的下法，它的位数是768个。
digit / ?d?d??t /
n.数字
例：
Her telephone number differs from mine by one digit.
她的电话号码跟我的差一个数字。
Some of her clients' sales have declined, but she's found new clients and improved efficiency help sustain the company's double-digit growth.
她的一些客户的销售额下降了，但她找到了新客户，提高了效率，帮助公司维持了两位数的增长。
The original intellectual group of go practitioners gradually lifted this high-brow pastimeup into the realms of art, alongside the seven-stringed zither, calligraphy and painting. As such, the equipmentof go become an increasingly fastidiousfeature, with precious wood, jade, clamshell, crystal and quartz used to make the pieces.
最初下围棋的知识分子群体逐渐将这项高雅的消遣提升到艺术领域，与古琴、书法和绘画并列起来。同时，对围棋的要求变得越来越挑剔，需要用珍贵的木材、玉石、贝壳、水晶和石英制作棋子。
pastime/ ?pɑ?sta?m /
n.娱乐，消遣
例：
His favorite pastime was patting his kitten's soft paws.
他喜爱的消遣就是轻拍小猫柔软的爪子。
Eating out is the national pastime in France.
在法国，去餐厅吃饭是全国人普遍的消遣活动。
equipment / ??kw?pm?nt /
n. 设备，用具
fastidious/ f??st?di?s /
adj. 挑剔的；苛求的，难取悦的；
Du Mu was a famous poet living in the ninth century. He once wrote a poem about playing a farewell game of Go with his friend, where they used jade stones and a catalpa table. Today the most popular stones are the Yunzi, made from pebblestone from Southwestern Yunnan province.
杜牧是九世纪的著名诗人。他曾经写过一首诗，是关于和朋友下围棋告别的场景。在下围棋时，他们使用了玉做的棋子和梓树做的棋盘。现在，最受欢迎的围棋的棋子是云子，是用云南西南部的鹅卵石制成的。