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The Olympic Games trace their originsorigin (noun)The point where something begins.≈ Synonym: beginnings🇺🇿UZ: kelib chiqishi🇷🇺RU: истоки back to ancientancient (adj)Belonging to a period long ago in history.≈ Synonym: age-old🇺🇿UZ: qadimiy🇷🇺RU: древний Greece, where athleticathletic (adj)Relating to physical sports and exercise.≈ Synonym: sporting🇺🇿UZ: sport (atletika)ga oid🇷🇺RU: спортивный competitionscompetition (noun)Events where people compete to win.≈ Synonym: contests🇺🇿UZ: musobaqalar🇷🇺RU: соревнования were held in the city of Olympia every four years, starting around 776 BCE. These ancient games continued for centuriescentury (noun)Periods of one hundred years.≈ Synonym: hundred-year periods🇺🇿UZ: asrlar🇷🇺RU: века before eventually being bannedban (verb)Officially forbidden.≈ Synonym: prohibited🇺🇿UZ: taqiqlangan🇷🇺RU: запрещены in 393 CE by a Roman emperor who considered them a paganpagan (adj)Relating to old religions worshipping many gods.≈ Synonym: polytheistic🇺🇿UZ: butparast🇷🇺RU: языческий tradition.
For more than 1,500 years, nothing similar existed on such a scale. That changed in the late 19th century, largely thanks to a French educatoreducator (noun)A person who teaches or works in education.≈ Synonym: teacher🇺🇿UZ: pedagog🇷🇺RU: педагог named Pierre de Coubertin. Inspired by the ancient Greek games and believing that internationalinternational (adj)Involving more than one country.≈ Synonym: global🇺🇿UZ: xalqaro🇷🇺RU: международный sport could help promotepromote (verb)To support or actively encourage something.≈ Synonym: encourage🇺🇿UZ: targ'ib qilmoq🇷🇺RU: продвигать peacepeace (noun)Freedom from war or conflict.≈ Synonym: harmony🇺🇿UZ: tinchlik🇷🇺RU: мир and understandingunderstanding (noun)A sympathetic awareness between people.≈ Synonym: mutual respect🇺🇿UZ: o'zaro tushunish🇷🇺RU: взаимопонимание between nationsnation (noun)Countries considered as political communities.≈ Synonym: countries🇺🇿UZ: davlatlar🇷🇺RU: нации, he worked to reviverevive (verb)To bring something back into use.≈ Synonym: restore🇺🇿UZ: tiklamoq🇷🇺RU: возродить the tradition in a modern form.
The first modernmodern (adj)Relating to the present or recent times.≈ Synonym: contemporary🇺🇿UZ: zamonaviy🇷🇺RU: современный Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, bringing together athletesathlete (noun)People who compete in physical sports.≈ Synonym: sportspeople🇺🇿UZ: sportchilar🇷🇺RU: спортсмены from just 14 countries to competecompete (verb)To try to win against others.≈ Synonym: contend🇺🇿UZ: musobaqalashmoq🇷🇺RU: соревноваться in 43 events. Compared to today's games, this first eventevent (noun)A planned public or social occasion.≈ Synonym: occasion🇺🇿UZ: tadbir🇷🇺RU: событие was relativelyrelatively (adverb)To a moderate degree, compared with something else.≈ Synonym: comparatively🇺🇿UZ: nisbatan🇷🇺RU: относительно small, but it establishedestablish (verb)Set up something on a firm basis.≈ Synonym: founded🇺🇿UZ: yo'lga qo'ydi🇷🇺RU: установила a traditiontradition (noun)A custom passed down through generations.≈ Synonym: custom🇺🇿UZ: an'ana🇷🇺RU: традиция that would grow enormouslyenormously (adverb)To a very great degree.≈ Synonym: hugely🇺🇿UZ: juda katta darajada🇷🇺RU: чрезвычайно over the following century. The Winter Olympics were later added in 1924, featuring sports played on snow and ice.
Over time, the Olympics have grown into one of the largestlarge (adj)Biggest in size or extent.≈ Synonym: biggest🇺🇿UZ: eng katta🇷🇺RU: крупнейший and most watchedwatched (adj)Viewed by an audience.≈ Synonym: viewed🇺🇿UZ: tomosha qilinadigan🇷🇺RU: просматриваемый sporting events in the world, now including thousandsthousand (noun)The number 1,000, used in large quantities.≈ Synonym: many hundreds🇺🇿UZ: minglab🇷🇺RU: тысячи of athletes representingrepresent (verb)Acting or speaking on behalf of a group.≈ Synonym: standing for🇺🇿UZ: vakillik qilib🇷🇺RU: представляющий more than 200 countries. The games have also survived major disruptionsdisruption (noun)Interruptions to a normal process.≈ Synonym: interruptions🇺🇿UZ: uzilishlar🇷🇺RU: срывы, including cancellations during both World Wars and, more recently, a postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beyond sport, the Olympics have often become a stage for important social and politicalpolitical (adj)Relating to government and public affairs.≈ Synonym: governmental🇺🇿UZ: siyosiy🇷🇺RU: политический moments, from symbolic protestsprotest (noun)Public expressions of disagreement.≈ Synonym: demonstrations🇺🇿UZ: e'tirozlar🇷🇺RU: протесты to historic achievementsachievement (noun)Things accomplished successfully.≈ Synonym: accomplishments🇺🇿UZ: yutuqlar🇷🇺RU: достижения that changed how the world viewed certain athletes or nations. Despite ongoing debates about the enormous costcost (noun)The amount of money required for something.≈ Synonym: expense🇺🇿UZ: xarajat🇷🇺RU: стоимость of hosting the games, the Olympic spiritspirit (noun)The essential character or attitude behind something.≈ Synonym: ethos🇺🇿UZ: ruh🇷🇺RU: дух of international competition and unity, first imagined by Coubertin, continues to attract billions of viewers every two years.