Today, as television and video games replace the great outdoors as the favorite recreation of children, shuttlecock sadly seems to be a losing game.
但是時至今日，孩子的生活也有了很大的改變。放學之後的時間，大都消磨在電視機前；學校的運動項目裡，又很少見它上榜，因此毽子就年復一年地寂寞起來。