標題：The strange success of snooker

Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going

正文：Snooker has been dying for decades. “It just feels boring, ” said Ronnie O’Sullivan, the most talented man to play the game, in 2009—the equivalent of Roger Federer opening a press conference with “Tennis sucks.” The days of the 1980s, when one in three Britons would watch the final of its world championship, are gone. By the 2000s a cottage industry lamenting its demise had emerged. In 2010 the Guardian predicted snooker would be an amateur sport by 2020.

知識點：equivalent adj. & n.

having the same value, amount, meaning, etc. as sth. else; a thing that has the same value, etc. 相等的；等同物

1 kilogram is equivalent to 2.2 pounds.（1公斤等于2.2磅。）

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