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Rugby union, it is often said, is a game for thugs that is played by gentlemen.
人們常說，橄欖球是紳士們玩的流氓游戲。
"Played by lawyers" might be a more accurate dictum. The rules are famously complicated.
“律師玩的游戲”，這么說或許更加準確。橄欖球的規則是出了名的復雜。
Scrums—organised shoving matches between the two teams' burliest members—are regarded as a dark art even by other players.
并列爭球—兩隊最強壯的隊員之間的推搡比賽—甚至被其他玩家視為一種黑暗的藝術。
Open, running play can be stopped and wound back for any number of arcane infringements.
任何莫名的犯規都可能暫停拉開進攻或讓持球奔跑的球員退回原位。
The recent Rugby World Cup competition, held in Japan, is regarded as a big success by those keen to boost the sport's popularity.
最近在日本舉行的橄欖球世界杯比賽被那些熱衷于提升這項運動人氣的人視為一場巨大的成功。
But it was marred by arguments about how to interpret complicated new rules forbidding dangerous shoulder charges and high tackles.
但是，關于如何解釋禁止危險肩沖和高阻截的復雜新規則的爭論，給比賽蒙上了一層陰影。
(World Rugby, the game's governing body, offers referees a handy flowchart to memorise, which provides for eight possible outcomes.)
（該運動主管部門，世界橄欖球聯合會為裁判員提供了一個方便記憶的流程圖，其中列出了八種可能的結果。）
All this is an irritant to players and referees, and a turn-off for viewers, who struggle to follow the action or work out why a particular decision was made.
所有這些對球員和裁判來說都是一種刺激，也會讓觀眾感到厭煩，因為他們很難跟上比賽的進展，也很難理解為什么要做出這樣的決定。
But a British firm called Sportable thinks it might be able to improve things, by wiring up rugby players—and rugby balls—with high-tech sensors.
但是一家英國公司Sportable認為通過給橄欖球運動員和橄欖球裝上高科技傳感器，或許可以有些改善。
Sportable was founded in 2014 by Dugald Macdonald and Peter Husemeyer, a pair of rugby-mad South Africans.
2014年癡迷于橄欖球的南非人Dugald Macdonald和Peter Husemeyer成立了Sportable。
It makes lightweight, sensor-stuffed garments that can be worn under a jersey and which measure impact forces in 80 separate places on a player's body.
該公司生產重量輕且裝上了傳感器的衣服，可以穿在球衣下，還可以測量球員身體80個不同部位的沖擊力。
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